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Japanese science stalls over past decade, threatening position among world’s elite |
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According to the Nature Index, Japan’s scientific output has failed to keep pace with other leading nations over the past decade, risking its position among the world’s elite if renewed government efforts fail to reverse a downward trend in its performance. Japan’s share of high-quality papers included in the Nature Index dropped by 6% between 2012 and 2016. More Search for more news in this Category |
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LabNetwork, WuXi AppTec’s global chemistry ecommerce platform company, has announced a new collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier. LabNetwork’s nearly four million commercially available discovery and research compounds will now be directly available to users of Reaxys, Elsevier’s premier chemistry database. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Plenaries at the American Chemical Society meeting to focus on energy, materials and partnerships |
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Scientists, in four plenary talks, will explore a variety of subjects related to the ‘Advanced Materials, Technologies, Systems & Processes’ theme of the 253rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. The meeting will take place April 2- 6, 2017, in San Francisco. More Search for more news in this Category |
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JSTOR releases JSTOR Sustainability to advance environmental research |
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JSTOR, the not-for-profit digital library, has released JSTOR Sustainability, a new online resource that brings together journals, policy research and books on the topic of environmental sustainability and resilience along with a set of tools to enable easy exploration of topics and ideas whether they are being discussed by an economist, scientist, or an urban planner. More Search for more news in this Category |
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F1000 partners with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch an open research publishing platform |
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F1000, a provider of a suite of services to support researchers, institutions and funders, has announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch an open research publishing platform. Due to launch in the third quarter of 2017, Gates Open Research will be a new publishing option that will increase the speed and transparency of scholarly publishing by Gates-funded researchers. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ÜberResearch and Leidos partner to add global research funding landscape to OnPar |
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ÜberResearch, a data and analytics solutions and services company serving scientific funders and research organisations, has announced a partnership with global science and technology solutions and services provider, Leidos, to OnPAR. OnPAR is the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research and was originally launched in March 2016 by the Leidos Life Sciences team, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). More Search for more news in this Category |
| The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ismael Ràfols, Nicolas Robinson-García and Thed N. van Leeuwen (How to make altmetrics useful in societal impact assessments: shifting from citation to interaction approaches); David Smith (Living with an AI: A Glimpse Into The Future); Phil Davis (Wither Portable Peer Review); Jeremy Cubert (Publish or Perish? The Balance Between Public Disclosure and IP Protection in Scientific Research); and Joe Wikert (Here’s how to turn book samples into a powerful B2C tool). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. |
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