Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 2, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Jon Tennant (How can academia kick its addiction to the impact factor?); David Kent (Peer review appears to be a poor predictor of impact); Dan Gorenstein (Medical journal's critics say it should share more data); NoveList Blog (Linked data: What… Read More
PETA honours Elsevier with inaugural Progressive Medical Education Software Award - April 29, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier was recently awarded the inaugural Progressive Medical Education Software Award by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The award was presented to the locally-developed Elsevier Animal Simulator software, which recreates a virtual animal laboratory for students to learn without having to… Read More
Cardiff Metropolitan University is 400th institution to go live with Ex Libris Alma - April 29, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the 400th customer of the Ex Libris Alma® cloud-based resource management solution, Cardiff Metropolitan University, has gone live. Building on the solution's unparalleled success, Ex Libris is now focusing on developing new services to address the next level… Read More
Portico now preserves one billion files - April 29, 2016
ITHAKA, a not-for-profit leader in developing new solutions to advance and preserve knowledge, has announced that its large-scale digital preservation service Portico now preserves one billion files or, in practical terms, more than 20,000 e-journals, 400,000 e-books, and 600 million images that include vast collections of… Read More
Figshare integrates Altmetric Badges to showcase attention surrounding research outputs - April 29, 2016
Over 2.5 million research outputs deposited on Figshare will now display Altmetric Badges, ushering in a new era of data-level metrics. This new integration means that the attention data for datasets, videos, images, code and other alternative research outputs will be presented within the Figshare… Read More
Clinicians worldwide quickly adopting Wolters Kluwer’s new clinical podcast, ‘UpToDate Talk’ - April 29, 2016
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that clinicians worldwide are quickly adopting the innovative new clinical podcast, 'UpToDate Talk' as a convenient way to keep up with new developments in medical research. First launched… Read More
