Emerald signs two-year partnership with Kudos research dissemination service - May 10, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has signed a two-year partnership with Kudos - the online platform that helps increase the impact of publications - after seeing high engagement levels with the service from its authors during trials. Kudos helps researchers, their institutions… Read More
Altmetric joins the Annotating All Knowledge Coalition - May 10, 2016
Altmetrics data provider Altmetric has joined the Annotating All Knowledge Coalition, an initiative spearheaded by Hypothes.is and comprising many innovators in the field of scholarly communication, including PLOS, CrossRef, and the HathiTrust. The purpose of the Coalition is to create an open, interoperable annotation layer over… Read More
SirsiDynix announces one-millionth digital content download - May 10, 2016
Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced the one-millionth digital content download through eResource Central (eRC). eRC is an electronic resource management and discovery system that simplifies access to library resources by uniting physical and digital content into a single discovery interface. Digital content is made… Read More
Presentations and discussions at COAR annual meeting 2016 - May 9, 2016
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) conducted its Annual Meeting and General Assembly on April 12-13, 2016 in Vienna/Austria. Through a diverse mix of conference sessions, round-table discussions and open dialogue, the meeting pushed attendees to examine the future of repositories and the challenges and… Read More
Over twenty publishers now use HighWire’s Impact Vizor for faster, easier ‘evidenced-based’ publishing insights - May 9, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., the publishing technology platform provider for renowned scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that twenty-one publishers now use Impact Vizor, a suite of interactive, visualised analytics viewers launched in August 2015. Impact Vizor was an ALPSP 2015 Award for Innovation in Publishing finalist.… Read More
Emerald recognises and rewards research excellence - May 9, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the winners of the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Now in its 23rd year, this awards programme is one of the largest, independent award schemes run by a publishing company – recognising and rewarding the outstanding contributions… Read More
