Wolters Kluwer unveils suite of digital learning tools to help medical schools’ transition to blended learning - March 3, 2021
Wolters Kluwer, Health has introduced Lippincott® Clinical Context, a suite of digital learning tools intended to help medical schools as they incorporate digital and remote instruction into their curriculum. The Lippincott Clinical Context program provides access to a comprehensive set of solutions that faculty… Read More
The MIT Press launches Direct to Open, a first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for OA monographs - March 3, 2021
The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O transfers professional and scholarly books from an exclusively market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. … Read More
Portland Press unveils Portal and Viewer to support transparency and reproducibility of supporting data - March 3, 2021
Portland Press, the publishing arm of the Biochemical Society, has announced the launch of a new Portal and Viewer to support the transparency and reproducibility of supporting data published alongside articles. The Portal, available at https://portlandpress.figshare.com/, publishes supporting data under an openly available Creative… Read More
eLife and Stencila announce next phase of development for the Executable Research Article project - March 3, 2021
eLife, in collaboration with Stencila, has announced the next phase of development for the Executable Research Article (ERA), bringing computationally reproducible research papers to more authors and publishers. The organisations have partnered on the open-source ERA project since 2017, taking it from the idea stage through… Read More
CLOCKSS appoints Alicia Wise as Executive Director - March 3, 2021
CLOCKSS, the long-term digital preservation service for scholarly communications, has announced the appointment of Dr. Alicia Wise to be its new Executive Director. She will succeed Craig Van Dyck, who retires in May 2021. Dr. Wise has worked to improve access to digital research information all through… Read More
John Wiley and Sons partners with Coinifide and XR Terra to launch online courses in the emerging fields of technology - March 1, 2021
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, has announced new partnerships with Coinifide and XR Terra to deliver online learning and live bootcamp courses in the booming disciplines of blockchain, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) for business. The new offerings… Read More
