Ithaka S+R’s Deanna Marcum selected to receive the NFAIS 2016 Miles Conrad Award The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Deanna Marcum, Managing Director of Ithaka S+R, has been selected to receive the NFAIS 2016 Miles Conrad Award. NFAIS’s Miles Conrad… Read More »
Springer Nature and the Confederation of Indian Industry partner to release the first ever nature index report on science in India at the CII global higher education summit The Nature Index analytics report Indian Science Ascending is the first of a new style of reports that further probe data from the Nature Index to answer… Read More »
Altmetric adds ORCID search functionality Altmetric has released a new functionality enabling users to search the entire Altmetric database, which contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs, by ORCID iD – making it easy for researchers, publishers, librarians and other users to uncover the online mentions and shares of scholarly content associated with… Read More »
Chinese research must continue to transform and reform to achieve the country’s goal of driving innovation-led development, says new NPG White Paper Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, has released Turning Point: Chinese Science in Transition, a White Paper which takes the pulse of China’s scientific research at a critical time in its… Read More »
SAGE partners with the Association for Patient Experience to publish the Journal of Patient Experience Academic publisher SAGE has begun publishing the Journal of Patient Experience (JPE) in partnership with the Association for Patient Experience. Disseminating practical findings and innovations to advance the patient experience, the ‘gold’ open access journal is a resource for industry… Read More »
Thomson Reuters partners with the Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research in Egypt to advance impact of research The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a partnership with the Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research in Egypt to enhance its Knowledge Bank—to be launched in January 2016—empower its scientists… Read More »
The London Book Fair launches new Trailblazer Awards at the Society of Young Publishers annual conference in Oxford The London Book Fair is launching the new Trailblazer Awards at the Society of Young Publishers annual conference in Oxford (#SYPConf15). The Awards will celebrate publishing professionals under the age of 30 who are demonstrating innovation and… Read More »
Derwent Markush Resource now available on STN International FIZ Karlsruhe — Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and the Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that Derwent Markush Resource is now available on STN InternationalTM, the leading online service for research and patent information. Markush structures are widely used in chemical… Read More »
Elsevier publishes three new encyclopaedias on mental health, pharmacology and forensic medicine STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of three new encyclopedias – the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs, and the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. The encyclopaedias are available on both the Elsevier Store and ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s full-text… Read More »
Knowledge Unlatched partners with Scope to create MARC records Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced its engagement with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), an Open Access facilitator headquartered in London. The objective of this engagement with Scope e-Knowledge is to create MARC records from input… Read More »