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by rheyer Posted on January 9, 2019
 New Clarivate Analytics and The Pistoia Alliance report outlines life science trends and priorities for 2019
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has announced key trends for the life science industry in 2019 based on The Life Sciences Innovation Report, developed with Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. According to the report, multi-disciplinary innovation, the implementation of new technologies, new approaches to research, the digitisation of R&D and healthcare, and academic contributions to biologics drug R&D are all key trends in the life sciences industry.
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 DOAJ survey reveals global trends in OA publishing
A survey of publishers with journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published; what types of organisations are publishing the content; on how publishing standards are being accepted globally; and geographical trends on the uptake of open access. The survey was sent out by DOAJ to its over 6000 account holders, that is to say publishers, in the Summer of 2018. Account holders were allowed one response each, regardless of how many journals they have in that account and all accounts have at least 1 journal active in DOAJ. The total number of responses returned was 1065.
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 Figshare now available on custom domains
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced that the customers of ‘Figshare for Institutions’ and ‘Figshare for Publishers’ will now be able to host content on a custom domain. Figshare portals have historically lived on a Figshare subdomain eg. university.figshare.com but now can be hosted anywhere eg. data.publisher.com, data.institution.edu, theworldscoolestdata.com.
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 McGill University to upgrade its knowledge management infrastructure to OCLC WorldShare Management Services
McGill University will be upgrading its knowledge management infrastructure and fully integrating OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its cloud-based library services platform in May 2019. In the summer of 2018, McGill Library upgraded the existing WorldCat Local online catalogue and search tool to its successor WorldCat Discovery.
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 Frontiers and the University of Würzburg form OA publishing agreement
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (University of Würzburg) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University of Würzburg supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University of Würzburg has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, eligible authors from the University of Würzburg may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to the author.
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