New Springer Nature Whitepaper provides insights into versions of articles most preferred by researchers - February 19, 2021
Research publisher Springer Nature has released a whitepaper “Exploring researcher preference for the Version of Record”, produced in collaboration with data from ResearchGate. Preprints, accepted manuscripts, and the final published version of record (VOR) signify researchers currently have access to increasing multiple versions of research papers. In… Read More
CAS and WorldQuant Predictive partner to develop new AI-enabled virtual screening tool that identifies most promising drug candidates to treat COVID-19 - February 19, 2021
Scientific information solutions provider CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and WorldQuant Predictive (WQP), an AI predictive products company, have partnered to develop an innovative methodology that can save time and lives by helping research teams rapidly prioritize the most promising drug candidates to treat… Read More
National Health Service Wales gains access to EBSCO Health Care’s CINAHL® Plus with Full Text - February 19, 2021
The National Health Service Wales (NHS Wales) Informatics Service has announced that all NHS Wales staff will gain access to EBSCO Health Care’s CINAHL® Plus with Full Text via the NHS Wales e-Library for Health. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is… Read More
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and DOAJ announce collective action agreement - February 19, 2021
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have announced a three-year collective action agreement that provides multi-year support for DOAJ from all fifteen member libraries. DOAJ indexes and promotes quality, peer-reviewed open access journals from across the… Read More
The Royal Society of Chemistry announces Read & Publish agreement with CSIRO - February 19, 2021
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a new Read & Publish deal with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the first such agreement with a partner in Australia. The agreement will initially run as a one-year pilot, with the opportunity… Read More
New report details impact of proposed Open Access policy on the UK’s research ecosystem - February 18, 2021
The economic impact of the potential new Open Access (OA) policy from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is detailed in a new report. The report, produced by FTI Consulting for the Publishers Association, assesses the impact of the policy on the UK’s research ecosystem… Read More
