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 New Nature Index data indicates surge in collaboration as businesses outsource discovery to academia
New data from the Nature Index show that as corporations have scaled back their own in-house research, there has been a surge in collaboration with academic and government research bodies, as they look to share the burden of scientific discovery. These findings are featured in the recently published Nature Index 2017 Science Inc. supplement, which investigates corporate institutions’ changing role in science, how the academic research landscape is evolving as a result, and the costs and benefits of these shifting arrangements to high-quality research.
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 German universities may lose access to Elsevier journals with still no sign of a deal to allow continued access
About 200 universities in Germany will reportedly lose their subscriptions to Elsevier journals. According to Nature News reports, negotiations have failed to end a long-term contract dispute. Negotiators with ‘Project DEAL’, a consortium of university libraries and research institutes, have been in talks with Elsevier for more than two years. They want a deal that would give most scientists in Germany full online access to 2,500 or so Elsevier journals, at about half the price that individual libraries have paid in the past.
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 SAGE Publishing expands investment in CCC’s RightsLink for Open Access platform
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has substantially expanded their investment in the RightsLink® for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation. RightsLink for Open Access is a metadata-driven e-commerce platform that helps publishers provide a best-in-class experience for their authors throughout the publication process by streamlining author fee transactions for open access charges, page charges, colour charges, and more, right within the workflow.
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 Allen Press upgrades scholarly services with Arbortext Publishing Engine Enterprise
Allen Press, Inc. has upgraded its scholarly journal typesetting platform to Arbortext Publishing Engine Enterprise. The Arbortext Publishing Engine is a cloud-based system that provides the ability to intelligently pull XML and unstructured data from content management systems profile content for targeted audiences and variable deliverable types and automatically generate publications.
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 EuroStemCell and Regenerative Medicine launch digital platform to promote public’s understanding of regenerative medicine in the society
EuroStemCell, in partnership with the Future Science Group MEDLINE-indexed journal Regenerative Medicine, have launched a digital platform which provides free-to-access summaries of hot-topic articles from leading international academics published in the journal’s recent two-part Special Focus Issue entitled, ‘Regenerative Medicine in Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives‘. The ultimate aim of the digital gateway is to bridge the gap between researchers and individuals outside of academia.
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