Bob Heyer-Gray, Librarian

Clarivate releases report on Innovation in South and South East Asia – December 14, 2020

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced the release of a new report on Innovation in South and South East Asia. The report Innovation in South and South East Asia… Read More

Oxford University Press joins Initiative for Open Abstracts – December 14, 2020

Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that it will join the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organisations, librarians, and researchers to enhance the open availability of abstracts. Through joining I4OA OUP commits to making the abstracts… Read More

Brill and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science partner to cooperate on digital concordances – December 14, 2020

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has partnered with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) to cooperate on digital concordances, a new publication format that draws upon historical practices of concordances, not only to publish the results of research in the customary format… Read More

Jisc appoints Paul Boyle as new chair – December 14, 2020

Jisc has appointed Paul Boyle as the new chair. Boyle will start an induction programme at Jisc from January 2021 before fully taking the reins as chair in mid-May 2021. He succeeds David Maguire, interim principal and vice-chancellor at the University of Dundee, who has helped… Read More

HealthStream acquires myClinicalExchange – December 14, 2020

HealthStream, a leading provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, has acquired substantially all of the assets of myClinicalExchange LLC, a Denver-based information technologies company. Through the acquisition, HealthStream gains myClinicalExchange’s SaaS application that allows healthcare organisations to track, manage, and report the… Read More

The Protein Society appoints Dr. John Kuriyan as Editor-in-chief of Protein Science – December 14, 2020

The Protein Society has appointed Dr. John Kuriyan as Editor-in-Chief of Protein Science, effective January 1, 2022. He will succeed outgoing editor Dr. Brian Matthews, who has served in the role since 2005 and provided continuous outstanding service to the Society and the broader community. … Read More

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online – December 14, 2020

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ishita Moghe (Publishers in power: how capitalism debilitates science); David Nicholas (What will the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic be for Early Career Researchers?); Sara Bosshart, Rod Cookson and Philipp Hess (Guest post — Subscribe to open: The Why,… Read More

Elsevier acquires Shadow Health – December 10, 2020

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and part of RELX, has acquired Shadow Health, a Florida-based developer of virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education. Shadow Health’s Digital Clinical Experiences train and prepare nurses and healthcare practitioners… Read More

Nature Index Artificial Intelligence supplement investigates emerging trends in AI research output – December 10, 2020

Escalating computing power, expanding data sets, and algorithms of unprecedented sophistication have led to a massive increase in the number of journal and conference papers referring to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. The Nature Index AI supplement draws on Nature Index data and the larger… Read More

CRKN and NISO announce Canadian Consortium Agreement – December 10, 2020

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) membership to all CRKN institutional members, as well as associate members participating in CRKN’s content licensing program.… Read More

EBSCO Information Services announces Clinical Decisions™ brand – December 10, 2020

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced Clinical Decisions™ as the new brand for its growing suite of health care solutions focused on improving patient-centred outcomes. Bringing clinical resources and services together under the Clinical Decisions brand emphasises the company’s focus on enhancing… Read More

PLOS announces peer-reviewed article types for PLOS ONE – December 10, 2020

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and protocols.io have announced an extension to their partnership to support increased sharing of open research methodologies. In early 2021 PLOS is launching two new peer-reviewed article types in PLOS ONE: Lab Protocols and Study Protocols.… Read More

AIP Publishing renews partnership with The Charlesworth Group for author services – December 10, 2020

The Charlesworth Group and AIP Publishing have renewed their partnership where Charlesworth provides exclusive language editing services on behalf of AIP Publishing. These services, available to all authors in the scientific community, are delivered as a white-label solution and are offered on… Read More

Emerald Publishing and Jisc partner to help authors in humanities and social sciences – December 10, 2020

Emerald Publishing and Jisc have announced a new agreement that will help authors in humanities and social sciences auto-deposit green open access papers in institutional repositories. The agreement is one of the first of its kind, bringing leading applied research to… Read More

The Society for Scholarly Publishing launches Professional Skills Survey – December 9, 2020

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has invited scholarly communications professionals from across the field to share their professional skill sets by participating in the second wave of Professional Skills Survey. Launched in 2019, the Professional Skills Survey informs SSP’s <a… <a=”” href=”https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/the-society-for-scholarly-publishing-launches-professional-skills-survey/”>Read More</a…>

Wolters Kluwer announces integration of DoseMeRx™ and Sentri7’s Antimicrobial Stewardship – December 9, 2020

Wolters Kluwer, Health, a global provider of trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions, has announced the integration of DoseMeRx™, a Tabula Rasa Healthcare precision dosing solution, with Sentri7’s Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) solution. With a single click, pharmacists can… Read More

Heather Joseph named as NISO’s 2021 Miles Conrad Awardee – December 9, 2020

National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), will be the recipient of the 2021 Miles Conrad Award, a lifetime achievement award for those working in the information community.… Read More

Pearson appoints Mike Howells as new Chief Strategy Officer – December 9, 2020

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, has announced Mike Howells as its new Chief Strategy Officer to further strengthen its focus on building a direct, lifetime relationship with learners around the world and to enhance its partnerships with learning institutions globally. Mike will further strengthen… Read More

Choice announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2020 – December 9, 2020

Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Librarians, has announced the Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2020. The list, released on December 1, 2020, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during 2019, as chosen by the editors. 2020’s list… Read More

Copyright Clearance Center hosts virtual Town Hall – December 9, 2020

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is hosting a virtual Town Hall on December 15, 2020, providing an in-depth look at the impact remote work is having on research and development (R&D) organisations.… Read More

Wiley becomes first global publisher to join AAPA – December 8, 2020

John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, has been elected by members of the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) to join its alliance. The first global publisher to join the AAPA, Wiley shares the organisation’s commitment to strengthen the fight against online… Read More

Jisc launches Plan S-compliant repository – December 8, 2020

Jisc is launching a new multi-content repository for storing research data and articles that will make it easier for university staff to manage the administration around open access publishing. The new repository offers simple, cost-effective ways to manage, store and share digital… Read More

ACS appoints Shelley D. Minteer as editor-in-chief of ACS Au journal family – December 8, 2020

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has appointed Dr. Shelley D. Minteer of the University of Utah as editor-in-chief of a portfolio of nine open access journals, all to be launched in 2021. The ACS Au family of journals will focus on specific… Read More

University of Waikato launches Ex Libris campusM platform based mobile app – December 8, 2020

University of Waikato has launched WaikatoUni mobile app based on the Ex Libris campusM™ platform. The solution and its features are aligned with two key university strategic goals: providing a unique student experience and investing in the success of future students. Using the app, students… Read More

The University of Oxford joins the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal – December 8, 2020

The University of Oxford has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. The deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research. The University of Oxford… Read More

Dr. Brown refines focus of Liver Transplantation as new Editor-in-Chief – December 8, 2020

The journal Liver Transplantation (LT) has reflected the science and practice of liver transplant professionals, which new Editor-in-Chief Dr. Robert S. Brown explained has always been a multi-disciplinary group of surgeons and hepatologists, intensivists, immunologists, pathologists, and others. When the journal debuted, with the title Liver… Read More

Simba reports on open access book market in Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 – December 7, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the movement towards open research and open access publishing in scholarly journals, but after shrinking in the pre-COVID-19 period, open access books are not poised to capitalise—this according to the latest report from Simba Information, a leader in media intelligence and… Read More

Libraries turn to NoveList®’s LibraryAware™ to communicate with patrons during the pandemic – December 7, 2020

LibraryAware™, from NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), is becoming a marketing tool given the unique needs of libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The unique needs have led to unprecedented interest in LibraryAware as library staff are leveraging its over… Read More

APA joins as signatory to TOP Guidelines – December 7, 2020

The American Psychological Association (APA), the nation’s largest organisation representing psychologists and psychological researchers, has joined as new signatory to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, an important step for helping to make research data and processes more open by default,… Read More

American Chemical Society appoints Craig Lindsley as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry – December 7, 2020

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has appointed Dr. Craig W. Lindsley as editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, effective January 1, 2021. Lindsley’s research group focuses on drug discovery, medicinal chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry. He is the founding… Read More

researchfish and Kudos partner to benefit researchers – December 7, 2020

researchfish, the leading provider of technology for tracking research and evidencing impact, and Kudos, the award-winning service for maximising potential impact of research, have partnered to benefit researchers, institutions and funders by broadening engagement with research among diverse audiences, within and outside… Read More

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online – December 7, 2020

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: John Kaye and Liz Bal (How institutional repositories support the transition to open research – and reduce admin burden for librarians); Jennifer Regala (Guest post — In pursuit of scholarly publishing relevance); Maria Cruz and Hans de Jonge (Beyond mandates:… Read More

Figshare launches The State of Open Data 2020 – December 4, 2020

Figshare, the online digital repository for academic research, has launched its annual report The State of Open Data 2020. The report is the fifth in the series and is the result of a collaboration between Figshare, Digital Science, Springer Nature and other… Read More

CHORUS uses GetFTR to support open research audit process – December 4, 2020

CHORUS, the non-profit membership organisation, is now using Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) technology to enhance their open research audit process. CHORUS is applying the GetFTR API to automate the gathering and checking of key data on journal articles and conference proceedings… Read More

FOLIO launches Honeysuckle Release – December 4, 2020

The FOLIO Open Source Community has issued its latest named release as the platform continues to add features and functionality to the library services platform (LSP). The Honeysuckle Release includes platform updates and integration improvements in addition to user experience (UX) improvements and accessibility features. … Read More

Research Square Company appoints Helen Tian as General Manager – December 4, 2020

Research Square Company has appointed Helen Tian as its General Manager of Researcher Solutions in Greater China. As Research Square Company’s senior leader in the Greater China market, Tian will lead commercial activities in China across AJE author services, Research Square platform and Springer Nature Research… Read More

APA names next editor-in-chief of American Psychologist® – December 4, 2020

American Psychological Association (APA) has named Dr. Harris Cooper as next editor-in-chief of its flagship journal American Psychologist®, effective January 1, 2021. American Psychologist contains articles covering issues across the discipline, ranging from science and practice to psychology’s contribution to public policy. The journal… Read More

OpenAthens announces line up for Access Lab 2021 conference – December 4, 2020

Identity and access management specialist OpenAthens has unveiled the details of its annual Access Lab conference that is to-be-held online on March 16-17, 2021. The theme for the event is ‘Thriving in the (un)usual. Creativity. Agility.’ The conference will be hosted virtually for the second… Read More