SPARC announces theme for 8th International Open Access Week The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the theme for this year’s 8th International Open Access Week will be ‘Open for Collaboration.’ The theme highlights the ways in which collaboration both inspires and advances the Open Access movement—from the partnerships behind launching… Read More »
Wolters Kluwer partners with Society of Pediatric Nurses to review pediatric content in Lippincott Solutions Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer has announced a partnership with the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) to review pediatric-specific content for the Lippincott Solutions software suite. With a membership comprising more than 3,500 pediatric nurses, SPN is the… Read More »
Springer launches new open access journal – International Journal of Implant Dentistry STM publisher Springer has launched a new open access journal, the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. Sponsored by the German Association of Dental Implantology (DGI) and the Japanese Socieities of Oral Implantology (JSOI), and published by SpringerOpen, the journal is dedicated to the… Read More »
Canadian funding agencies release coordinated public access policy Three largest funding agencies in Canada have released a coordinated policy requiring researchers to provide access to articles resulting from their funded research. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)… Read More »
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 »