Wiley launches KnowItAll 2020, takes spectral identification to the next level - July 29, 2020
John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, has announced the debut of KnowItAll 2020, following the company’s acquisition of the informatics KnowItAll spectroscopy software and spectral databases in April. KnowItAll 2020 features a new streamlined interface and tools to accelerate the… Read More
Portico at JCDL 2020 - July 29, 2020
On August 5, Karen Hanson, Portico Senior Research Developer, will be participating in ‘Making, Using, and Exploring Web Archives: Tales from Scholars & Practitioners,’ a panel discussion in the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries virtual workshop. The presentation is part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on… Read More
Collaborative research and development initiative, Building a National Finding Aid Network, receives IMLS funding - July 29, 2020
The California Digital Library has announced a $982,175 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS – National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant program) to conduct a two-year research and demonstration project designed to build the foundation for a national archival finding aid network.… Read More
Library’s linked-data project gets new grant - July 29, 2020
A $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is boosting a multi-institution initiative to develop tools and workflows that improve the sharing of catalogue data among libraries and help internet users discover library resources on the web. Known as Linked Data for Production,… Read More
Ken Audus named as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - July 29, 2020
Ken Audus has been named as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is the professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in University of Kansas and former School of Pharmacy dean. Audus will be the 14th editor of the publication that was founded in 1852. He replaces… Read More
Europe PMC partners with UKCDR to make COVID-19 grant information more widely available and accessible - July 28, 2020
As a response to the current pandemic crisis, organisations worldwide have increasingly made funding available for COVID-19 research. As part of the COVID CIRCLE programme, the Medical Research Council (MRC) has worked with the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLoPID-R)… Read More