 Nature Index 2016 Australia and New Zealand supplement names Melbourne and Sydney as leading hotspots for innovation in Australia |
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According to the Nature Index, Melbourne was Australia’s leading city in terms of high-quality science output in 2015, followed by Sydney. The index also shows that Brisbane saw the fastest growth in output between 2012 and 2015, and is home to the highest-placed institution in Australia, The University of Queensland (UQ), which made the largest contribution by share of authorship to high-quality papers than any other institution last year. Overall, Australia’s high-quality research output has grown considerably, up by 10% in just three years, placing it 12th in the index’s global standings. More Search for more news in this Category |
 EBSCO Health and McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit partner to expand evidence-based healthcare |
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EBSCO Health has announced a partnership with McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit to ensure that healthcare professionals can make decisions based on the best available evidence. The partnership brings together two of the most established services that provide systematic literature surveillance to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare. More Search for more news in this Category |
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CABI’s first open access book tackles global health |
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Scientific publisher CABI, has published its first open access book – Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa. Written by Gemma Aellah, Tracey Chantler and P. Wenzel Geissler, this book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and challenges faced while doing global health research. It focuses on places where the effects of political and economic inequality are evident. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Brill appoints Marti Huetink as Publishing Director of the History program |
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Academic publisher Brill has announced the appointment of Marti Huetink, Publishing Director of the History program, effective November 1, 2016. As Publishing Director of the History program at Brill, Huetink will begin coordinating all business development activities of the company in the area of Digital Humanities. Next to his title of Publishing Director, Huetink will carry the title of Program Director Digital Humanities. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Ex Libris becomes first global library vendor to establish data center in China |
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Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced the opening of an Ex Libris data center in Beijing, the fifth such center established by Ex Libris worldwide. The decision to set up a Chinese data center results from the rapid growth in the number of Ex Libris customers and prospective customers in the Asia Pacific region. The Beijing data center contributes to the Ex Libris holistic approach to the Chinese market, complementing the company’s full support for the Chinese language. More Search for more news in this Category |
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UCL Press becomes first UK publisher to provide OA monographs on the JSTOR platform |
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UCL Press has become the first UK publisher to provide open access monographs on the JSTOR platform. UCL Press books are amongst an initial set of open access books available from four leading publishers, which also includes university presses University of California Press, University of Michigan Press and Cornell University Press. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Language Science Press and Knowledge Unlatched announce partnership |
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for- profit company based in England, has announced that it has been selected by the Language Science Press (LangSci) as its partner for creating sustainable funding starting in 2017. Based on its global network of over 380 scholarly libraries, KU will expand to language institutes in order to secure the publication of around 30 high quality linguistic monographs per year from 2018 onwards. This is following up on an initial grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). More Search for more news in this Category |
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