Jisc appoints Victoria Moody as new director of research and innovation strategy - March 4, 2021
Jisc has announced the appointment of Victoria Moody as director of research and innovation strategy. Victoria’s appointment follows her secondment as research sector strategy lead during which, she developed Jisc’s new research sector strategy 2021-2023. Victoria will provide strategic direction by embedding Jisc’s research and innovation… Read More
Wiley announces new partnerships to advance its colleague culture - March 3, 2021
Research and education provider John Wiley and Sons has announced new partnerships with Care.com, Headspace, and LinkedIn Learning to Wiley colleagues, in addition to some of the powerful digital learning content and services the company offers to its customers. This announcement reaffirms Wiley's overall strategy to create… Read More
Clarivate’s new visualization tool encourages responsible research evaluation - March 3, 2021
Clarivate Plc, a provider of trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has released a new interactive tool that showcases the range of a researcher’s publication and citation impact in a single visualization. The Web of Science™ Author Impact Beamplots will enable users of… Read More
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
