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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →