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NISTEP and Thomson Reuters collaborate to improve assessment of research funding organisations
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the implementation of unified research funders on InCites Benchmarking. This was the first outcome of the 2015 collaboration agreement with the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to standardise definitions of research funding organisations by analysing and updating funders’ acknowledgements within the Web of Science.
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Springer journal Quantum Information Processing presents first Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award
Publisher Springer has announced that its journal Quantum Information Processing has awarded the first annual Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award to the most outstanding paper published in the journal during the previous year. The winning paper is ‘Ultrastrong coupling in a scalable design for circuit QED with superconducting flux qubits’ by Mun Dae Kim of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in Seoul.
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ARL’s Research Library Issues 288 highlights how research libraries are using data visualisation to improve services
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 288, an issue focusing on how research libraries are using data visualisation to improve their services and to communicate their value. The two articles in this issue were presented at the Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Washington, in August 2014.
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Emerald Group Publishing appoints Caitlin Cornish as Head of Books Publishing
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced that Caitlin Cornish, former Publishing Director for Palgrave Macmillan, has joined Emerald as Head of Books Publishing. This significant strategic appointment of an industry big-hitter forms part of Emerald’s investment in a major new programme of academic and professional books and monographs designed to bring the very latest ideas and approaches to global universities, researchers, students and practitioners.
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Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the Oldenburg Regional Library select Ex Libris Alma
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest® company, has announced that following an EU-wide tender, the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg’s Library and Information System (BIS) and the Oldenburg Regional Library (Landesbibliothek Oldenburg) have signed agreements to license the Ex Libris Alma® resource management service. This service will replace the libraries’ URICA integrated library system (ILS). The decision was announced during the 6th Library Congress 2016 in Leipzig.
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Kudos appoints Jason De Boer as Publisher Sales Manager
Kudos, a service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced the appointment of Jason De Boer in the role of Publisher Sales Manager. Jason brings a range of valuable experience from past roles with publishers including McGraw Hill, Harcourt Academic and, most recently, Elsevier.
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