The UK Government commissions Tech Partnership to create standards for basic digital skills - June 13, 2016
The Tech Partnership has been asked by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to define the standards for basic digital skills – the skills that everyone needs for life in a digitally-enabled world; for getting… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 13, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alice Meadows (Mind the Gap: Gender Disparity in Scholarly Publishing Revisited); Kent Anderson (Divided We Fall - How a Fragmented Media Space Affects Academia and Scholarly Publishing); Mark Western (We need more solution-oriented social science: on changing our frames of… Read More
Thomson Reuters introduces Thomson IP Manager Core Solutions, provides comprehensive IP management for mid-sized corporations - June 10, 2016
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the introduction of Thomson IP Manager Core Solutions, offering a comprehensive set of preconfigured workflows with automated step-by-step IP management processes for all critical elements of IP lifecycle management and ideal for mid-sized companies. Historically,… Read More
ProQuest completes digitisation of rare books at Wellcome Library - June 10, 2016
ProQuest's renowned Early European Books (EEB) program now includes nearly 10,000 digitized titles and more than 4 million pages from the Wellcome Library, the pre-eminent collection in Europe devoted to the history of medicine and related topics. In collaboration during the past five years with… Read More
Cell Press announces July launch of a new journal, Chem - June 10, 2016
Biomedical journals publisher Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced the July launch of a new journal, Chem. With this launch, Cell Press officially begins the expansion of its portfolio to meet the needs of the wider research community. Chem (@Chem_CP) aims… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group to publish international, peer-reviewed journal, Smart Science - June 10, 2016
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has announced that it will publish the journal Smart Science from 2016. Smart Science is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant original scientific research, reviews and analysis of current research and science policy. The journal welcomes submissions of… Read More
