Pensacola Christian College to support student engagement with Ex Libris campusM mobile app - April 12, 2019
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Pensacola Christian College (PCC) in Florida has fully deployed the Ex Libris campusM® cloud-based mobile platform to support student engagement and success. The campusM platform was chosen for its unique ability to bring together campus services under one… Read More
New report suggests higher scholarly impact if South Asian countries collaborate globally, but intra-regional collaboration may be key to tackling local challenges, says new report - April 8, 2019
A joint report by Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the World Bank, shows that over a five-year period between 2012 and 2016, the South Asian region published 679,571 papers, accounting for 5.3 percent of the world’s scholarly output—increasing the region’s… Read More
New Springer Nature white paper proposes five essential factors to accelerate data sharing - April 3, 2019
Academic publishing company Springer Nature has released a white paper titled Five Essential Factors for Data Sharing. The white paper draws on surveys of over 11,000 researchers to make concrete recommendations that ensure good data practice. Five Essential Factors for Data Sharing… Read More
Springer Nature launches its 2018 Responsible Business Report - March 28, 2019
Springer Nature has launched its Responsible Business Report for 2018. The report outlines how Springer Nature, a publisher of open access research, publisher of Nature and parent of Macmillan Education, helps the research, education and professional communities it serves to advance discovery and learning, and sets… Read More
Growing international collaboration not yet enough to halt decline in Japan’s research output, reports Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement - March 21, 2019
The Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement shows that global research performance in Japan continues to fall, but the number of international research partnerships is increasing. Japan’s contribution to high-quality scientific research fell by 19.9 percent between January 2012 and October 2018. But efforts to increase international… Read More
Norway’s UNIT selects Web of Science Data to power National Bibliometrics database - March 19, 2019
Norway’s UNIT (the Directorate for ICT and joint services in higher education and research), working on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research, has chosen the Web of Science Group as its sole data provider for a new national research evaluation project. The Web of Science Group, a
