PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in deal to enable preprint posting on bioRxiv - February 8, 2018
Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have announced an agreement that enables the automatic posting of research articles submitted to PLOS journals on bioRxiv, CSHL's preprint server for the life sciences. This collaboration between bioRxiv and PLOS… Read More
Emerald announces winners of 7th annual Emerald High Usage Awards - February 8, 2018
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has released the winners of the 7th annual Emerald High Usage Awards, listing the 20 global academic institutions that have received the highest number of eJournal downloads throughout 2017. The Emerald High Usage Awards celebrate the relationship between Emerald and each… Read More
Jisc launches second wave of digital collections group purchasing pilot - February 8, 2018
JISC has launched the second wave of its pilot which last year saved participating libraries £127,000 on purchasing digital archival collections. EBSCO is the final publisher to join forces with Adam Matthew Digital, Brill, and ProQuest, to be part of the innovative group-purchasing pilot. The… Read More
NEJM launches redesigned website on Literatum - February 8, 2018
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) recently relaunched the NEJM.org website on Literatum. The new website was redesigned specifically to enhance user experience, and includes streamlined navigation that makes content discovery faster and easier; search facets and filters that let readers quickly drill down… Read More
Inera Inc. releases eXtyles Metadata Extraction Technology - February 8, 2018
Inera Inc., a provider of editorial and XML software for scholarly and technical publishers, has announced the release of eXtyles Metadata Extraction Technology, designed to integrate with manuscript submission systems, preprint servers, repositories, and STM production workflows to accurately identify and mark up metadata from unstructured… Read More
Clarivate Analytics re-establishes Institute for Scientific Information to its Scientific and Academic Research Group - February 7, 2018
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced that it will re-establish the prestigious Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to its Scientific and Academic Research Group. This new incarnation of the institute will be focused… Read More
