HTRC awards four SCWAReD ACS projects - January 12, 2021
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has selected four projects to participate in its special round of Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD) project. The projects will seek to build… Read More
CNUDST and SPIE partner with Accucoms to finalise national Read & Publish agreement in Tunisia - January 12, 2021
CNUDST and SPIE have partnered with Accucoms to finalise a national Read & Publish agreement in Tunisia. Academic and research establishments in Tunisia will have access to entire SPIE Digital Library content which includes scientific journals as well as conference proceedings. In addition… Read More
McGraw Hill extends its partnership with Clever to provide access to digital learning tools - January 11, 2021
McGraw Hill is expanding its partnership with Clever, the most widely-used single sign-on (SSO) and rostering service in the K-12 market, to make it easier for students to access digital learning tools. Through a new agreement between the two industry leaders that extends to 2030, the 13,000… Read More
New electronic theses and dissertations dashboard from ProQuest helps universities grow and showcase research - January 11, 2021
A new electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) dashboard can help administrators and librarians gather valuable data on their university’s research output – and it is now available free to all universities who disseminate their dissertations and theses with ProQuest. Developed in collaboration with… Read More
RSNA announces publication of first annotated data set from RICORD by TCIA - January 11, 2021
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force have announced that the first annotated data set from the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database (RICORD) has been published by The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA). … Read More
SPARC appoints Katie Steen as Manager of Public Policy and Advocacy - January 11, 2021
SPARC has appointed Katie Steen as Manager of Public Policy and Advocacy, effective February 1, 2021. In the newly established position, Katie will be responsible for enhancing SPARC’s policy and coalition activities to advance SPARC’s commitment to making open the default for research and education. Katie… Read More