Seven publisher partners sign up to Kudos’ Shareable PDF for author sharing - October 10, 2018
Kudos, a platform for managing research dissemination, has announced that seven more publisher partners have signed up to switch on the Shareable PDF (S-PDF) feature and enable their authors to use Kudos for managing and evaluating PDF-based sharing. S-PDF makes it easy for researchers to… Read More
ConTech 2018: Sam Herbert and Vincent Cassidy discuss becoming a data driven publisher in a joint interview - October 9, 2018
In a recent interview, ConTech 2018 chairs, Sam Herbert, of 67Bricks, and Vincent Cassidy, of the IET, explore some of the key issues for publishers looking to become more data-driven in the run up to November's event. The full interview is available at Read More
Wiley and AIChE launch new journal – Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing - October 9, 2018
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) have announced the launch of a new quarterly, peer-reviewed journal - Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing. Set to debut in Spring 2019, the new journal will focus… Read More
Elsevier, Atypon, Digital Science and COUNTER collaborate to develop new standard for Distributed Usage Logging - October 9, 2018
Scholarly publishers will soon be able to receive usage reporting from Mendeley, Elsevier's Scholarly Collaboration Network (SCN), and Digital Science's literature discovery tools, ReadCube, Papers, and Dimensions. These industry firsts are made possible by a collaboration led by Elsevier, Atypon, Read More
University Consortium of the South of Russia gain access to Digital Science’ Dimensions and Figshare - October 9, 2018
Research technology company Digital Science has announced an agreement that will provide researchers and students from the University Consortium of the South of Russia access to two products aimed to transform the way their researchers manage, search and analyse research, and to support student education through… Read More
OA expert Rob Johnson analyses ‘Plan S’ at on Copyright Clearance Center’s ‘Pop-Up’ webinar - October 9, 2018
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) recently hosted a 'pop-up' webinar in advance of Frankfurt Book Fair - Get Smart About "Plan S" - featuring Open Access (OA) expert Rob Johnson, founder and director of the UK's Research Consulting. Johnson offered a 30-minute crash course full of… Read More