NISO publishes new recommended practice for content platform migrations - November 22, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of its Recommended Practice, NISO RP-38-2021, Content Platform Migrations, which provides guidance to improve processes and communication between all parties, with suggested steps involved before, during, and after the migration of content from one platform to another.… Read More
Altmetric partners with Austria’s National Open Access transformation initiative - November 22, 2021
In an industry first, Altmetric is partnering with Austria’s National Open Access transformation initiative AT2OA2, supplying altmetrics data on over 250,000 research outputs from Austria’s academic institutions. AT2OA2 is the successor project to AT2OA, which ran from 2017-2020 and subsequently secured funding for… Read More
INORMS Research Evaluation Group releases guide to SCOPE Framework for responsible research evaluation - November 22, 2021
The International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group (REG) has released an 18-page guide to their framework for responsible research evaluation called SCOPE, which has been designed by Emerald Publishing. Established in 2018, the INORMS REG has been working to… Read More
April19 and CAS partner to fast-track real-world application of AI to discovery of novel mental health therapeutics - November 18, 2021
April19 Discovery (April19), an artificial-intelligence-enabled drug discovery company, and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society that specializes in scientific information solutions, have announced a collaboration to accelerate the identification of novel small-molecule therapeutic drug candidates. As part of this collaboration, CAS is using scientist-curated chemical… Read More
Wiley and Virginia Library Consortium VIVA announce three year open access agreement - November 18, 2021
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a three year open access agreement with VIVA, a consortium of more than seventy libraries and academic institutions throughout the US state of Virginia, to begin in 2022. The agreement, which expands on a previous pilot between Wiley… Read More
STM Board appoints Dr. Caroline Sutton as new CEO - November 18, 2021
The International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has announced that its Board has appointed Dr. Caroline Sutton as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. Caroline who currently serves as Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis will take up the… Read More
