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Scope in deal with Springer Nature to provide thesaurus development and maintenance services
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced a partnership with Springer Nature, one of the leading global publishing companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Scope’s team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and certified taxonomists will build and maintain knowledge models (taxonomies and thesaurus) for the global publisher’s various online information products.
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Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Founded in 1994, SSRN is a Rochester, NY-based scholarly research preprint repository and online community. SSRN will be further developed alongside Mendeley, a London-based free reference manager and scholarly collaboration network owned by Elsevier.
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Cross-industry coalition forges to collaborate on solutions to protect against predatory publishing and irresponsible author support practices
The Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources is one step closer to its mission to help preserve the integrity of the scholarly literature by sharing industry knowledge of irresponsible and in some cases predatory practices associated with academic publishing. The Coalition is also committed to ensuring transparency, discoverability, and accountability of responsible publishing services to industry norms, guidelines, and best practices, so that academic authors can make informed decisions when seeking publication services and when publishing their scholarly works.
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Association of Research Libraries seeks proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2017 SPEC survey topics. For more than 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with librarians in the US and Canada to develop surveys of the ARL membership on strategic topics related to research library policies and practices.
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Clinical trials data now linkable with publications
A group of publishers have announced a development to uniquely identify each clinical trial and easily link to related publications for the first time. This will make it easier for health professionals to obtain all the necessary information relating to a clinical trial for their patients, and to ensure transparency for researchers.
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Research Square partners with Wiley for trial of video summaries for Wiley authors
Research Square, leading provider of author services to researchers worldwide, announced a new trial with Wiley to make its Video Summaries solution available to authors publishing in a select set of Wiley journals. As part of this pilot partnership, authors accepted at 20 Wiley journals, will have the option to purchase a Video Summary to help share their research to a broad audience in an engaging multimedia format.
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Avestia Publishing to preserve e-Journals with Portico
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Avestia Publishing will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available in the future. Avestia Publishing is a fast growing academic publication platform.
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