NFAIS to host Blockchain for Scholarly Publishing conference - April 5, 2018
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will host Blockchain for Scholarly Publishing, a conference on how blockchain could affect researcher workflows, including data collection, peer review, and access to published works. Attendees will explore blockchain's application, review case studies, and debate its challenges and… Read More
California selects ProQuest for K12 - April 5, 2018
ProQuest has announced that its guided research and learning resources, reference solutions and ebooks will be available this fall to California's 6.2 million school children in the state's 10,000 K12 schools. ProQuest is one of three companies selected as part of California's new state-wide digital… Read More
River Valley announces two-way integration of its submission system – ReView, with bioRxiv preprint server - April 5, 2018
Authors of biology and biomedical papers can now choose to submit to a journal directly from bioRxiv, as well as submit to bioRxiv automatically from a journal. The move is the result of a 'two-way' integration of River Valley's ReView platform with… Read More
Canadian Association of Research Libraries signs San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - April 5, 2018
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has signed on to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which recommends changes in practices by the research community regarding the use of research metrics. Research metrics (or bibliometrics) are a variety of techniques that provide… Read More
Wiley and Lumina Datamatics partnership to increase discoverability of millions of images from Wiley Online Library - April 4, 2018
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. and Lumina Datamatics have announced a new partnership that will enable the discovery and legal use of Wiley vast collection of images and figures on Lumina's. Lumina Datamatics will increase the accessibility of critical figures and images found in Wiley's… Read More
Invitation to complete survey on how archives and special collection repositories are being cited in publications - April 4, 2018
Research Libraries UK, in partnership with The National Archives and Jisc, have recently commissioned TheResearchBase to undertake a commissioned study into the citation of archive and special collection holding repositories within academic publications ('Citation Capture'). As a part of this important… Read More
