Middlesex University opts for Solutionpath and Ex Libris campusM to deliver classroom attendance and engagement solution - September 18, 2019
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, and Solutionpath Ltd has announced that Middlesex University has chosen the Solutionpath StREAM learning analytics platform and Ex Libris campusM mobile app to provide learning analytics and attendance solutions that are the first of their kind in the market. Middlesex… Read More
Jisc appoints Karen Foster to lead new data analytics directorate as executive director - September 18, 2019
Jisc has announced a new appointment to its leadership team - Karen Foster. Karen will lead a new data analytics directorate as executive director, effective September 17. Karen joins Jisc from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), with 22 members of her team. Jisc and… Read More
OpenAIRE and Knowledge Unlatched Sign Agreement to Develop Open Research Analytics Service - September 13, 2019
OpenAIRE and Knowledge Unlatched (KU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop an Open Infrastructure for Open Research Analytics. Both organisations share the common goal of building infrastructure that accelerates the scholarly community’s transition to Open Access. The service will… Read More
Caitlin Carter of Johns Hopkins Selected as SPARC VPO for Negotiations - September 13, 2019
SPARC has appointed Caitlin Carter to its team as a visiting program officer. Carter, Scholarly Communication and Open Access Policy Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library Baltimore, Maryland, will spend about a quarter of her time in the newly established role. Carter… Read More
Web of Science Group names Dr. Erjia Yan as recipient of 2019 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis - September 4, 2019
The Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company, has named Dr. Erjia Yan as the recipient of the 2019 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, at the 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics in Rome. This award recognises scientists who work… Read More
ASCO announces recipients of its CancerLinQ Discovery® Research Support Grant - August 30, 2019
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has announced the three recipients of its CancerLinQ Discovery® Research Support Grant. The awardees will undertake research projects using data from CancerLinQ Discovery®, an offering of ASCO’s CancerLinQ® initiative that provides de-identified data from cancer patients to academic researchers,… Read More