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 South Korean universities reach agreement with Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect
A consortium of hundreds of South Korean universities has reportedly reached a new deal with scientific publisher Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect, a database containing content from 3500 academic journals and thousands of electronic books. The agreement includes price hikes between 3.5% and 3.9%. The publisher had earlier pushed for a 4.5% increase.
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 Nominees for Clarivate Analytics Cortellis “Deal of the Year” awards announced at 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Clarivate Analytics revealed that the market value of the most innovative and impactful global life sciences transactions of 2017 increased by 6% totalling US $364 billion, despite a decrease in overall deal volume. The transactions nominated for the annual Clarivate Cortellis Deal of the Year Awards include licensing and mergers and acquisitions. The announcement of the nominees at the 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco coincided with the Clarivate Deals and Portfolio Annual Review presentation – the foremost independent analysis of the economic trends shaping the life sciences sector in 2017.
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 Oxford University Press joins the Initiative for Open Citations
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. I4OC aims to establish a global public web of linked scholarly citation data to enhance the discoverability of published content, explore connections between knowledge fields, and follow the evolution of ideas and scholarly disciplines.
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 Bladder Cancer named official journal of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
STM publisher IOS Press and the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN), have announced that the journalBladder Cancer will now become the official journal of BCAN. As the result of this new partnership, Bladder Cancer and BCAN will combine resources to support a readily accessible information platform to serve the bladder cancer research and clinical practice communities.
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 National Taiwan University selects Ex Libris Alma Library Services
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that National Taiwan University (NTU) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform to replace the school’s library management system. In addition, NTU’s local implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution will be migrated to the cloud and integrated with the Alma platform.
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 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. set to publish new peer-reviewed journal – Bioelectricity
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced that it will publish Bioelectricity, a peer-reviewed journal and an influential and dynamic meeting place for the rapidly growing bioelectricity community. Spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief, Dany Spencer Adams, Tufts University, Bioelectricity will be published online and in print with open access options.
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 CLOCKSS and SAGE Publishing announce preservation deal
The CLOCKSS Archive and academic publisher SAGE Publishing have announced that the SAGE e-book offerings on its SAGE Research Methods (SRM) and SAGE Knowledge (SK) platforms will be digitally preserved for the long-term in the CLOCKSS Archive. CLOCKSS, the decentralised preservation archive that ensures that the digital assets of the community will survive intact, simultaneously announced the support of five additional participating publishers for future generations of researchers.
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