ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data – Draft white paper open for comments through November 30 - November 19, 2018
In June 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) charged a task force to look at Wikidata. The task force emerged from several years of discussion between ARL and the Wikimedia Foundation on where the two communities can effectively collaborate. The focus on Wikidata and Wikibase… Read More
ConTech 2018 opens in just two weeks’ time - November 16, 2018
ConTech 2018 tickets are going out this week. The inaugural ConTech opens in just two weeks' time. Every organisation creating and managing content collects mountains of data on its users and content - some valuable, some not. Using techniques like artificial intelligence, machine learning and… Read More
The University of Hyogo selects SciFinder-n from CAS to accelerate scientific research and engineering education in Japan - November 14, 2018
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society has announced a partnership with the University of Hyogo to provide SciFindern to its student population. SciFindern provides the most relevant scientific information across the expansive content collection from CAS. With SciFindern, reactions, substances and references can now… Read More
Elsevier launches Entellect, a cloud-based data platform designed to help life sciences companies - November 14, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced the launch of Entellect, a new cloud-based data platform designed to help life sciences companies overcome the challenges of modern R&D by enriching and harmonising proprietary and external data and delivering it in an… Read More
Frontier Economics’ new report outlines integral role of academic publishing in the UK - November 13, 2018
Frontier Economics has released an independent research that sets out publishing's contribution to the innovation cycle, incorporating existing research with stakeholder views. The report finds that without the highly specialised and time-intensive tasks carried out by UK academic publishers, innovation may be less effective. It also… Read More
ConTech 2018 offering two student bursaries to rising stars of the information world - November 8, 2018
Applications are coming in from students across the world who want to attend ConTech 2018 later this month in London, UK, as part of the bursary programme. The world of intelligent content is revolutionising the creation, dissemination and consumption of information. ConTech has a mission to… Read More
