Ex Libris integrates altmetrics into Summon® discovery service - February 11, 2016
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has integrated altmetrics into the Summon® discovery service to significantly enrich the user experience and improve content discovery. This new development, achieved through collaboration between ProQuest and Altmetric, enables researchers to explore the online shares, comments and discussion relating to individual… Read More
The American Medical Association partners with ReadCube to enhance reading experiment and discoverability of JAMA Network titles - February 11, 2016
ReadCube and the American Medical Association have announced a partnership to enhance the reading experiment and discoverability of its JAMA Network titles. All titles, including JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Oncology and JAMA Cardiology, have been indexed and are now easily discoverable… Read More
Registration for COAR Annual Meeting & General Assembly now open - February 11, 2016
Registration for the COAR Annual Meeting & General Assembly is now open via the University of Vienna website. Two important themes underlie the meeting program. Next Generation Repositories will focus on value-added functionalities for repositories and International Collaboration will feature several collaborative projects being facilitated… Read More
Pensoft journal One Ecosystem now open for submissions - February 11, 2016
Academic publishing company Pensoft has announced that One Ecosystem, an innovative open access scholarly journal launched in January 2016, is now open for submissions ranging across the entire research cycle, including data, models, methods, workflows, results, software, perspectives and policy recommendations. Ecosystem services, Ecology and… Read More
Atypon announces significant growth in 2015 - February 11, 2016
Atypon, the industry leader in scholarly and professional online publishing technology, has launched 17 new client websites in 2015 and significantly expanded its services for several existing clients, making it the most successful year in the company's history. Atypon now hosts nearly 8,000 journals, 13 million… Read More
BMJ provides free online Zika virus resources to support healthcare workers - February 10, 2016
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ is offering free online resources to support researchers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to understand and respond to the global health emergency linked to the Zika virus. The online resources are aimed at healthcare professionals located in the affected regions of… Read More