McGraw-Hill Education to integrate Connect with D2L’s Brightspace LMS making it easier for college students to access and use learning materials - April 7, 2017
McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has announced the integration of its Connect digital homework management and learning solution with the D2L's Brightspace learning management system (LMS) in time for Fall 2017 classes. Used by millions of students, McGraw-Hill Connect® embeds award-winning adaptive capabilities and… Read More
Japanese science stalls over past decade, threatening position among world’s elite - March 27, 2017
According to the Nature Index, Japan's scientific output has failed to keep pace with other leading nations over the past decade, risking its position among the world's elite if renewed government efforts fail to reverse a downward trend in its performance. Japan's share of high-quality papers… Read More
New report on the current state of the OA publishing market evaluates the range of policy options available to increase access and enhance competition and sustainability - March 22, 2017
Research Consulting, within the scope of the OpenAIRE Work Package dealing with the FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot (WP5), was commissioned by LIBER in October 2016 to undertake an economic analysis study of the Open Access publishing market - "Read More
Association of Research Libraries releases ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2014–2015 - March 20, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2014–2015, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 59 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada. In fiscal year 2014–2015, the reporting health… Read More
New SPARC Europe report on Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe - March 17, 2017
SPARC Europe, together with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), has released a report that provides a snapshot of various Open Data and Open Science policies, as they currently stand throughout Europe. The report gives an overview and quick access via live links to the sourced policy… Read More
Evidence-based characteristics could help authors recognize predatory journals - March 16, 2017
A study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine identifies 13 evidence-based characteristics by which potential predatory journals may be distinguished from presumed legitimate ones. The 13 characteristics identified by researchers at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada include an interest in publishing research on… Read More
