CrossRef appoints Ginny Hendricks to focus on member and community outreach - March 30, 2015
CrossRef, the global not-for profit digital hub for scholarly communications, has announced the addition of Ginny Hendricks to its management team in the newly-created role of Director of Member and Community Outreach, where she will be responsible for marketing, business development, member services, and product support.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 30, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rebecca Lyons (The Academic Book of the Future: exploring academic practices and expectations for the monograph); Isabel Kim (Digital age transforms the landscape of academia); Alice Meadows (Tell Us What You Want, What You Really Really Want - First Results… Read More
RCUK publishes first independent review of its open access policy - March 27, 2015
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has published the first independent review of the implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open Access. Chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess, former University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, the review received an excellent response from the research community, with over 85 submissions of… Read More
Nature Index 2015: Asia-Pacific region maintains reputation for high-quality scientific research - March 27, 2015
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has maintained its world-leading reputation for high-quality scientific research, according to the Nature Index APAC supplement 2015, published as a supplement of Nature. APAC nations contributed more than 25 percent of articles included in the Nature Index database in 2014. China… Read More
Wolters Kluwer launches UpToDate Anywhere in South Africa - March 27, 2015
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced the launch of UpToDate® Anywhere in South Africa. UpToDate Anywhere enables South African hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with mobile access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource. Clinician usage of UpToDate nationwide is expected… Read More
CAB Direct reaches 11 million record milestones - March 27, 2015
Global academic publisher CABI has announced that its bibliographic platform CAB Direct has reached the milestone of 11 million records. CABI's in-house platform, CAB Direct, hosts CAB Abstracts the leading English language bibliographic database covering the applied life sciences. Updated weekly, CAB Direct now offers… Read More
