PETA honours Elsevier with inaugural Progressive Medical Education Software Award STM publisher Elsevier was recently awarded the inaugural Progressive Medical Education Software Award by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The award was presented to the locally-developed Elsevier Animal Simulator software, which recreates a virtual animal laboratory for students to learn without having… Read More »
STM Launches Tech Trends 2020: The Floodgates of Technology are Open! The new STM Tech Trends is being launched at the STM Annual US Conference in Washington DC. The theme of this year’s infographic look into the future of STM publishing is: The Floodgates of Technology are Open. The Tech Trends 2020 emphasize how the… Read More »
Society for Scholarly Publishing awards twelve Fellowships for 2016 The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that 12 students and early-career professionals have been awarded highly competitive Fellowships for 2016. The Professional Development Committee received nearly 100 applications for these coveted positions. The Fellowship Program, an extension of the former Travel Grant Program, offers… Read More »
Elsevier and Humboldt-Innovation GmbH launch Humboldt Elsevier Advanced Data & Text Centre STM publisher Elsevier and Humboldt-Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer office of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has announced the launch of the Humboldt Elsevier Advanced Data & Text (HEADT) Centre. The HEADT Centre brings together experts from Elsevier and researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to… Read More »
ProQuest Ebook CentralTM named finalist for 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Scholarly Research Information Solution ProQuest Ebook CentralTM, an innovative ebook platform, was named a finalist for the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Scholarly Research Information Solution, which recognises the ‘research information solution that provides high quality content and meets rigorous standards for… Read More »
NISTEP and Thomson Reuters collaborate to improve assessment of research funding organisations The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the implementation of unified research funders on InCites Benchmarking. This was the first outcome of the 2015 collaboration agreement with the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry… Read More »
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting crosses boundaries, borders and aims to break down barriers The 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will be held at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, BC, June 1-3, 2016. Although its membership includes professionals from around the world, this is the first time SSP is… Read More »
Springer Nature and The Hormel Institute launch new OA journal – npj Precision Oncology Global publisher Springer Nature has announced that it will publish npj Precision Oncology, a new open access, international, peer-reviewed journal, in partnership with The Hormel Institute University of Minnesota in Austin, Minnesota, United States. The journal is currently open for submissions.… Read More »
SPARC and Johns Hopkins University Libraries collaborate to launch resource analyzing US federal data sharing policies The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University Libraries, has released a new resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding U.S. federal funder research data sharing policies. This free tool, launched at datasharing.sparcopen.org, provides… Read More »
ProQuest’s Pivot automatic citation ingest from ORCID makes its funding recommendation engine more powerful ProQuest is enabling automated updates from ORCID to scholar profiles in its popular Pivot® research solution. Now, citations added or updated in a scholar’s ORCID profile will cascade near real time and seamlessly into their Pivot profile. Pivot uses researchers’ profile… Read More »