COAR announces participation in Europe’s OpenAIRE2020 The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced its participation in the OpenAIRE2020, to work towards international alignment of repository networks, a key priority for COAR. COAR will lead the work package, ‘International Alignment’, enabling to further support work already underway at COAR to facilitate greater interoperability of… Read More »
Elsevier launches SciVal Trends, a new module within SciVal STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of SciVal Trends, a new module within SciVal, Elsevier’s tool to analyse and benchmark the world of research, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of tools and services. The Trends module builds on SciVal’s existing flexibility to… Read More »
Elsevier launches Geofacets Mexico STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Geofacets Mexico, a special edition of Geofacets, designed to give Oil & Gas companies a competitive advantage in completing Mexico’s Oil & Gas block bidding. This unique, cost-effective offering combines maps, seismic sections and timelines with other valuable data providing vital geological insight… Read More »
Springer partners with CCC to deliver XML content for corporate biomedical text mining STM publisher Springer has partnered with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) on a new solution enabling corporate life sciences researchers to perform text and data mining (TDM) quickly and easily across publishers. As one of the first publishers to sign onto the service,… Read More »
The London Book Fair to extend Publishing for Digital Minds conference into the virtual arena, first social media conference to focus on trends in global publishing The London Book Fair has announced that it will extend the Publishing for Digital Minds conference into the virtual arena on March 18, 2015, with the first social media… Read More »
Springer’s eBooks on center stage at Australian universities STM publisher Springer is putting its eBooks front and center in a new campaign scheduled for Orientation Week in Adelaide, Australia, this month. While the full breadth of the effort will feature a lot of moving parts at multiple locations, there is no question that the content… Read More »
Authors can now opt for double-blind peer review across Nature and Nature Research Journals Authors will now be able to opt for double-blind peer review across Nature and the Nature Research Journals. Nature Publishing Group’s flagship open access journal, Nature Communications, will be joining the trial later in 2015. Double-blind peer review is being introduced… Read More »
Nature-Springer deal further consolidates STM publishing Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners announced January 15 an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education — namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education. This announcement is the first major industry consolidation since John… Read More »
Maverix Analytic Platform integrates with Elsevier Pathway Studio for seamless NGS analysis workflow to assist critical decision making Maverix Biomics Inc. has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to streamline the interpretation of raw next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to reveal new insights and to assist with critical decision making. The announcement was… Read More »
National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences selects Summon service to support research information retrieval The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) has selected the Summon service to better support the patrons of Chinese Academy of Sciences with an integrated resource discovery platform. This integrated resource platform has been… Read More »