Bob Heyer-Gray, Librarian

Clarivate unveils its Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list – November 19, 2020

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has unveiled its list of Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or… Read More

Jisc and Wiley partner with UK universities to create new digital collection – November 19, 2020

Jisc and publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. have partnered with leading UK universities and the British Science Association (BSA) with the creation of a new digital collection: the British Association for the Advancement… Read More

IOP Publishing signs transformative agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium – November 19, 2020

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed a new open access (OA) transformative agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium. Under the three year ‘read and publish’ agreement, authors affiliated with the consortium’s member institutions can publish open access in 42 IOPP journals without article publication charges for… Read More

SPIE partners with global open-knowledge platform The Lens – November 19, 2020

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has partnered with the global open-knowledge platform, The Lens, a robust and comprehensive resource of linked datasets of scholarly and patent works run by Cambia, a long-established global social enterprise.… Read More

AAAS launches new Science Partner Journal, Ultrafast Science – November 19, 2020

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of new Science Partner Journal, Ultrafast Science, published in affiliation with Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM). Ultrafast Science will publish high-quality original research articles, comprehensive… Read More

zbMATH transforms into open access platform – November 19, 2020

In the beginning of 2021, the comprehensive international information service zbMATH will be transformed into an open access platform. The service, which has been subject to a charge up to now, will thus be available free of charge to all interested persons worldwide. The change in the business model will… Read More

Future Science Group celebrates 15 years of Regenerative Medicine and welcomes new Senior Editor – November 19, 2020

Future Science Group (FSG) is celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the journal Regenerative Medicine with the announcement of a new Senior Editor and a special feature on partner site RegMedNet highlighting the key advances made in the field… Read More

Ex Ordo manages SSP Annual Meeting Call for proposals – November 18, 2020

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will use Ex Ordo to manage the call for proposals for its 43rd Annual Meeting, to be held on May 24–27, 2021. The meeting theme is ‘Charting a New Course from Chaos to Innovation,’ and it… Read More

Elsevier and Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources agree on proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support open access goals – November 18, 2020

The Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have signed an agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan’s open access (OA) goals,… Read More

NISO voting members approve work to update Journal Article Versions – November 18, 2020

The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) has announced that their Voting Members have approved a new work item to update the 2008 Recommended Practice, NISO RP-8-2008, Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group. A NISO Working Group… Read More

ASM launches new journal, Microbiology Spectrum – November 18, 2020

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is launching a new journal in Spring 2021, Microbiology Spectrum, ASM’s sixth fully open-access journal. Led by an international team of scientists actively engaged in microbiology research, Microbiology Spectrum will welcome technically sound research from all… Read More

Aries Systems and Digital Commons partner to support growth of Diamond Open Access journals – November 18, 2020

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions provider to the scholarly publishing community, and Digital Commons, a leading platform for open access publishing and institutional repositories, have partnered to support the growth of Diamond Open Access (OA) journals across the globe. The partnership brings… Read More

Ex Libris announces Oded Scharfstein as President – November 18, 2020

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced Oded Scharfstein as president of Ex Libris. Scharfstein will succeed Bar Veinstein who will continue leading Ex Libris until January 2021, and going forward, will serve on the company’s advisory board. Scharfstein has more than 15 years of… Read More

Scilligence partners with CAS to enable direct access to CAS scientific content through Scilligence informatics platform – November 17, 2020

Scilligence, a provider of web-based informatics solutions for R&D, has partnered with CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, to enable direct access to CAS scientific content through the Scilligence informatics platform. A previous partnership between Scilligence and CAS enabled users to initiate SciFindern searches… Read More

Elsevier and US-UK Fulbright Commission announce winners of UK Early Career Researcher Awards 2020 – November 17, 2020

Elsevier, in partnership with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, has announced the winners of the UK Early Career Researcher Awards 2020. The ECR Awards champion researchers at an early stage in their career by recognising their work and awarding each recipient a grant… Read More

McGraw Hill now provides digital textbooks to academic libraries on the ProQuest® Ebook Central® platform – November 17, 2020

Learning science company McGraw Hill has begun making its widely used digital textbooks available for sale and distribution to US academic libraries through Ebook Central, the eBook platform from EdTech leader ProQuest, a leading partner to academic libraries in the US and… Read More

APS launches new outreach service, Grow: Plant Health Exchange – November 17, 2020

The American Phytopathological Society (APS) has launched Grow: Plant Health Exchange, an online, science-based resource for plant health management professionals and practitioners to exchange knowledge and discover the latest applied research. All the content is freely accessible, without a subscription, to share the information among practitioners.… Read More

Jisc relaunches digital archival collections – November 17, 2020

Jisc is relaunching a digital archival collection purchasing scheme that will help institutions reduce the cost of buying digital collections and archives from publishers and opens up the scheme to academic-related affiliates. Digital archival collections of primary source material are an… Read More

Research Square Platform celebrates publication of 50,000 preprint submission – November 17, 2020

Research Square, a multidisciplinary publishing platform for preprints, has surpassed 50,000 submissions since its debut in October 2018. Preprints, which are scholarly manuscripts published before they are formally peer-reviewed, exploded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the science and publishing community began using… Read More

Clarivate and the Chinese Academy of Sciences release Annual Joint Report – November 16, 2020

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released their joint report ‘Research Fronts 2020’ to identify the hottest and emerging… Read More

Wiley launches Developmental Science Publishing Network – November 16, 2020

John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, has announced the launch of the Developmental Science Publishing Network, the result of a unique collaboration between Wiley, learned societies and journals to make the publishing process quicker and easier for authors, editors and… Read More

AAAS launches new Science Partner Journal, Health Data Science – November 16, 2020

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of new Science Partner Journal, Health Data Science, published in affiliation with Peking University (PKU). Health Data Science’s mission is to use data for better health. The journal is committed to publishing… Read More

Oxford University Press’s flagship What Everyone Needs to Know ® series available in one digital space for the first time – November 16, 2020

Oxford University Press (OUP) has released over 100 titles from the What Everyone Needs to Know® series online, giving readers access to them in one digital space for the first time. The new online version of What Everyone Needs to Know® is… Read More

IET Inspec database reaches milestone 20 million total records – November 16, 2020

The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Inspec database has reached over 20 million indexed records throughout its 50-year history. Since Inspec’s launch in 1969, it has become a definitive database for subject-specific and interdisciplinary research in the fields of engineering, physics and computer science. … Read More

The BMJ and the World Innovation Summit for Health launch series of collections – November 16, 2020

One of the world’s top four general medical journals, The BMJ, and the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Qatar Foundation’s global health initiative, have launched a series of collections to help advance knowledge on toxic stress in children, healthy dry cities, and the relationship between climate change and communicable… Read More

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online – November 16, 2020

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Angela Cochran (Editorial boards benefit from virtual meetings); Luis Pérez-González (The government is following the science’: Why is the translation of evidence into policy generating so much controversy?); Dani Guzman (Research administration: Relieving the pressure on researchers); Matt McKay (The… Read More

Wolters Kluwer applies AI technology to Sentri7 clinical program – November 13, 2020

Wolters Kluwer, Health has applied artificial intelligence (AI) to its Sentri7 clinical program to optimise inpatient opioid use and increase patient safety. Pharmacists can decrease the risk of opioid-related adverse events, identify opportunities for use of multi-modal (non-opioid) therapies and support earlier discontinuation of opioids. … Read More

EBSCO and AT-CRIS collaborate to offer FOLIO Implementation Services for libraries in Germany – November 13, 2020

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and AT-CRIS GmbH (AT-CRIS) are collaborating to support libraries looking to implement the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP). The partnership will provide reliable implementation, hosting and support services to libraries in Germany. AT-CRIS… Read More

University of Johannesburg joins ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Publishing Program – November 13, 2020

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has joined the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses publishing program to contribute its graduate students’ dissertations and theses to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global® (PQDT) database, the leading source of emerging research from universities around the world. Thousands of graduate… Read More

The University of Salford and Newcastle University join the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal – November 13, 2020

The University of Salford and Newcastle University have joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. The landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research. The… Read More

Aries Systems and ReviewerCredits partner to connect peer review recognition solution with Editorial Manager® – November 13, 2020

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions provider for the scholarly publishing community, has partnered with ReviewerCredits, a peer-review accolade service, to facilitate an automatic and more efficient means of acknowledging Reviewers for their work. Millions of hours are volunteered by researchers each year… Read More

MDPI appoints Dr. Jörn Lötsch as Founding Editor-in-Chief for the journal Biomedinformatics – November 13, 2020

Open access publisher MDPI has appointed Dr. Jörn Lötsch as Founding Editor-in-Chief for the new open access journal Biomedinformatics. Dr. Jörn Lötsch is a biomedical scientist at the Goethe – University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Jörn’s fields of research are data science,… Read More

ARL, CNI, EDUCAUSE release final installment of emerging technologies report – November 13, 2020

The seventh and final installment of Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning explores how libraries can thoughtfully integrate technology into their buildings to support a range of user needs, from active collaboration to reflection and focused study. The section released highlights… Read More

SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting is now open for proposal submission – November 12, 2020

SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, planned for the last week of May 2021, is now open for submission of proposals for educational sessions through December 4, 2020. All educational sessions will be presented virtually. Proposals for posters are being accepted through January 29, 2021, and poster… Read More

Clarivate launches Annual G20 Scorecard Report to examine research performance of G20 – November 12, 2020

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has launched a new report, The Annual G20 Scorecard – Research Performance 2020, that examines the research performance of the G20 with a visual comparative snapshot for each member… Read More

Oxford University Press adds hundreds of new titles on Oxford Scholarship Online – November 12, 2020

Oxford University Press (OUP) has added hundreds of new titles on Oxford Scholarship Online. These titles join OUP’s vast online library, giving users digital access to significant academic works for the first time. Oxford Scholarship Online combines OUP’s world-leading scholarship with… Read More

EBSCO Information Services collaborates with PowerSchool to enhance Stacks portals – November 12, 2020

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is collaborating with PowerSchool, a leading provider of K-12 education technology solutions, to facilitate easy access and inclusion in course programming for teachers and students via EBSCOed powered by Stacks.… Read More

SciBite releases SciBiteAI Relationship Extraction models – November 12, 2020

SciBite, the award-winning semantic technology company, has announced the release of its SciBiteAI Relationship Extraction models, which provide the enhanced ability to identify complex relationships within text to further unlock insights from Life Sciences data. Deployed within the recently launched SciBiteAI framework,… Read More

Zeev Zalevsky appointed as new editor-in-chief for Journal of Electronic Imaging – November 12, 2020

Zeev Zalevsky, dean of Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, has been appointed as new editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), effective January 1, 2021. He succeeds the journal’s current editor-in-chief, Karen Egiazarian, who has served since 2016. Co-published by the Society… Read More

Southern Cross University launches Ex Libris Esploro researcher profiles – November 12, 2020

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that Australia’s Southern Cross University (SCU) has launched its online Researcher Profiles, powered by the Ex Libris Esploro™ research information management solution. The Researcher Profiles pages are part of SCU’s Esploro-based Read More

International Society of Interdisciplinary Engineers LLC acquires Techstreet – November 10, 2020

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a globally recognised, trusted source of standards used around the world, have announced that the International Society… Read More

Wiley Education Services partners with University of Wyoming to support faculty in online learning – November 10, 2020

Wiley Education Services, part of John Wiley and Sons Inc., has partnered with University of Wyoming (UW) to help bring the school’s courses online quickly and effectively for the spring 2021 semester. One of Wiley’s largest fee-for-service agreements to date, the partnership… Read More

Jisc and EDP Sciences conclude ‘Flexible Maths Journals Agreement 2021-2023’ – November 10, 2020

International academic publisher EDP Sciences has partnered with Jisc, the membership organisation providing digital solutions for UK education and research. From January 1, 2021, for a fixed, discounted price, the ‘EDP Sciences Flexible Maths Journals Package 2021-2023’ offers… Read More

ACS appoints Sara E. Skrabalak as editor-in-chief of Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters – November 10, 2020

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a nonprofit organisation, has appointed Sara E. Skrabalak as editor-in-chief of both Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters. Skrabalak’s research interests span broad topics, with a focus on solid-state chemistry and nanomaterials, and strong influences… Read More

Kudos to study effect of COVID-19 on research funding and publishing – November 10, 2020

Kudos, the award-winning service for broadening research impact, has provided an update on sponsors for its Brave New World research project, which will provide publishers, societies and providers of related services with vital insights to shape strategies for 2021 and beyond. The… Read More