Research Square launches new blog as educational resource for researchers - May 8, 2020
Research Square is launching a blog as an educational resource for researchers. The blog will feature articles about emerging trends in research communications such as preprints, badges, and video summaries. With the success of its multidisciplinary preprint platform, which now hosts over 20,000 preprints, Research… Read More
Mobility Data Collaborative publishes best practices for data terminology and governance - May 8, 2020
The Mobility Data Collaborative (Collaborative), a multi-sector forum of mobility partners, has released two best practices – a glossary of standardised terms and metrics as well as guidelines for privacy-focused data governance and contracting. The collective effort by shared mobility operators, data aggregators, public agencies, academia,… Read More
Wiley and ResearchGate announce cooperation agreement to enhance research collaboration - May 7, 2020
Wiley, a global leader in research and education, and ResearchGate, the largest professional network for researchers, has announced a cooperation agreement to explore ways in which Wiley and ResearchGate can collaborate to better support the needs of researchers through ResearchGate’s collaboration platform.… Read More
EBSCO Information Services and Mygrator partner to support libraries adopting the FOLIO LSP - May 7, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Mygrator have partnered to support libraries adopting the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP). EBSCO and Mygrator will work together to provide reliable hosting and support services locally. Founded in 2020, Mygrator was formed to meet the FOLIO demand in the… Read More
Leading standards organisations, AENOR and ASTM International, sign technology deal - May 7, 2020
Two of the world’s leading standards organisations, AENOR and ASTM International, have signed a commercial technology agreement that aims to expand the reach of their respective standards and related technical documents. The signing took place in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania (USA), at the global headquarters of… Read More
ACM calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy, and scrutiny in COVID contact tracing - May 7, 2020
The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) of the world’s largest society of computing professionals, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has released detailed principles and practices for the development and deployment of ‘contact tracing’ technology intended to track and arrest the spread of COVID-19.… Read More
