Figshare announces next-generation of data management platform targeted at researchers, funders and publishers - October 12, 2015
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic researchers, has announced the next-generation of its data management platform targeted at researchers – ranging from individuals to teams in all-sized organisations – as well as funders and publishers. Already the de facto standard for many users' research data… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 12, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Transitioning to a More Unified Platform); Phill Jones (What’s so Wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 1); Janne-Tuomas Seppänen (Troubling Noises – Why Scientific Peer Review Is not Broken but Needs to Be Fixed); Sabina Leonelli and… Read More
Thomson Reuters to deploy Watson technology to enhance customer solutions - October 9, 2015
Thomson Reuters and IBM have entered into an agreement to enhance customer solutions across Thomson Reuters using Watson. The collaboration underscores the ongoing commitment by Thomson Reuters to deliver innovative technology solutions within specific industry domains to its customers via its in-house… Read More
YBP Library Services and EBSCO increase collaboration with Irish academic community - October 9, 2015
YBP Library Services (YBP) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will be working more closely with academic institutions in Ireland after agreeing to new contracts to supply e-books and journals. The tenders were issued and managed by Education Procurement Services (EPS) over the… Read More
Public access to results of NSF-funded research - October 9, 2015
The National Science Foundation (NSF or Foundation) has developed a plan outlining a framework for activities to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data resulting from research using the foundation funds. The plan, entitled 'Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries,' is consistent with the objectives… Read More
De Gruyter’s new open access pricing model to prevent ‘double dipping’ - October 9, 2015
Academic publisher De Gruyter is introducing a new pricing model that prevents 'double dipping' with open access publications. Double dipping is when publishers are paid twice for articles in hybrid journals, on the one hand through charging for the open access publication itself and, on the… Read More
