DataSalon launches new data quality service – DataSalon DQ - September 26, 2017
Customer insight solutions provider DataSalon has launched a new data quality service, aimed directly at the needs of scholarly publishers. DataSalon DQ is a fully-hosted data quality solution, providing a flexible toolkit for analysing and improving the quality and accuracy of any data set. Improvements… Read More
Nominations sought for ALCTS 2018 HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions - September 26, 2017
Nominations are being accepted for the 2018 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional achievement, including the HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1, 2017. Presented by the Acquisitions Section for… Read More
Scope leverages Synaptica® to deliver a specialized thesaurus on nanotechnology for a global STM publisher - September 25, 2017
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that it has successfully completed an ANSI/NISO standards compliant nanotechnology Knowledge Model (KM) for a global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing company. Additionally, the hierarchies in the… Read More
Elsevier provides free online access to health and disaster journals in response to recent hurricanes and Mexico earthquakes - September 25, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, is providing free access online to health and disaster-related journals through the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in partnership with the U.S. National Library… Read More
Scientific & technical publishing market flat in 2016, says new Simba report - September 25, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report titled 'Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2017-2021.' The report notes that once a fast growing, predictable and inflation-proof market, scientific and technical publishing is now mostly flat and increasingly subject to… Read More
New open-access journal Metabarcoding & Metagenomics joins the lines of publisher Pensoft - September 25, 2017
A new innovative open-access academic journal Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG) has been launched to welcome novel papers from both basic and applied aspects. Focusing on genetic approaches to study biodiversity across all ecosystems, MBMG covers a considerably large scope of research including environmental, microbial and applied metabarcoding and metagenomics… Read More
