CAS to develop and host the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library – June 23, 2020
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specialising in scientific information solutions, and the Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit members’ organisation that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has signed an agreement under which CAS will develop and host the Pistoia… Read More
New Discover Journal series from Springer Nature enables swift route to OA through enhanced author services – June 23, 2020
Springer Nature continues to drive the transition to open access (OA) with the launch of a new fully OA journal series. The Discover series introduces a new streamlined OA publishing experience, extending Springer Nature’s commitment to OA by supporting quick access to high quality research to… Read More
2019 CiteScoreTM values released, improved methodology introduced to provide a faster, more stable indicator of research impact – June 23, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has released the 2019 CiteScoreTM values, its latest assessment of thousands of peer-reviewed research journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications covered in Scopus. In addition, an improved calculation methodology has been introduced to provide… Read More
Karger Publishers collaborates with the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia to foster Saudi standards in research and publishing – June 23, 2020
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has announced a collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia. In line with the Saudi ‘Vision 2030’ the objective of the project is to foster Saudi standards in research and publishing. The ‘Vision 2030’ project comprises around… Read More
Dartmouth, Syracuse, USC and Flinders adopt ProQuest’s new end-to-end text and data mining solution – June 23, 2020
Four universities – Dartmouth College, Syracuse University, the University of Southern California and Flinders University – are among the latest higher-education institutions to drive research breakthroughs with ProQuest’s text and data mining (TDM) Studio solution. The newly launched TDM Studio solution puts the power of… Read More
FOLIO community accepted to Google’s Season of Docs initiative – June 23, 2020
FOLIO, an open source library services platform, has been accepted to Google’s Season of Docs initiative. Season of Docs is an effort to bring together technical writers and open source projects to foster collaboration and improve documentation in the open source space.… Read More
Association of Research Libraries recommends to end litigation against Internet Archive – June 23, 2020
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has urged for an end to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive filed early this month by four major publishers in the United States District Court Southern District of New York, especially now that the National Emergency Library (NEL) has… Read More
