 Major educational content providers and distributors join forces to fight counterfeit textbooks |
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Academic publishers Cengage, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg, Inc. to have them adopt and implement a set of Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices designed to address the growing problem of counterfeit print textbooks. The Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices are intended to assist distributors with combating counterfeits of print textbooks that hurt students, educators, publishers and distributors. More Search for more news in this Category |
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New Scholastica white paper proposes democratized OA academic journal publishing to solve serials crisis |
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Scholastica, a peer review and open access (OA) publishing platform for academic journals, has announced ‘Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access,’ a new white paper on the state of academic journal publishing. The paper proposes an upending of the corporate publisher paradigm to make OA journal publishing sustainable. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier launches new OA journal for healthcare professionals dealing with burn injuries |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Burns Open: An International Open Access Journal for Burn Injuries. Published on behalf of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI), and a companion to Burns, this new international open access journal aims to foster the exchange of information on burn care among practitioners and others interested in the field. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Research institutions in the US, France and Germany top second annual Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions |
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The US Department of Health and Human Services, France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Germany’s Fraunhofer Society top the Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology. The rankings were compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, and are based on proprietary data and analysis of indicators including patent filings and research paper citations. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Arizona Universities Library Consortium opts for Ex Libris Alma, Primo and bX solutions |
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Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Arizona Universities Library Consortium (AULC) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service, along with the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery platform and bX® scholarly recommender service, to make scholarly resources more readily available to the consortium’s student and faculty users. The AULC will benefit from the various configuration options in Alma that support the consortium’s current and planned business practices without the need for complex workarounds. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Emerald Publishing launches new titles for World Book Day |
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World Book Day this year coincides with Emerald Publishing announcing a number of new book titles, series and products that help bridge the gap between academia and the real world. Emerald is celebrating its 50th year in 2017. The global publisher will be exhibiting its new book products and demonstrating its growing strength as a books publisher at the forthcoming London Book Fair (LBF), March 14-16. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Future Science Group unveils online knowledge hub for infectious diseases |
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Future Science Group (FSG) has announced the launch of their new resource, Infectious Diseases Hub (ID Hub) – the new home of medical microbiology information. ID Hub, powered by FSG Connect, is a new online knowledge hub providing up-to-date, essential research and information on key aspects of virology and microbiology, from bench to bedside. More Search for more news in this Category |
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