South Korean universities reach agreement with Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect - January 17, 2018
A consortium of hundreds of South Korean universities has reportedly reached a new deal with scientific publisher Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect, a database containing content from 3500 academic journals and thousands of electronic books. The agreement includes price hikes between 3.5%… Read More
Digital Science launches Dimensions, a next-generation research and discovery platform linking publications, grants, policy, data and metrics for the first time - January 16, 2018
Global technology company Digital Science has announced the launch of Dimensions, a new platform that aims to democratise and transform scholarly search. A collaboration between six Digital Science portfolio companies (Altmetric, Digital Science Consultancy, Figshare, Readcube, Symplectic and ÜberResearch) and more than 100 research funders and… Read More
Global engineering and technology TV platform unveils video search functionality - January 8, 2018
IET.tv has launched Engineering Video Intelligence (EVI), a powerful, new video transcript search function, which allows users to keyword search within its entire video database to find exact and relevant time stamped content at the click of a button. The online platform, run by the… Read More
Docuseek2 Complete Collection: Second Edition now available from Alexander Street - December 21, 2017
Docuseek2, a leading distributor of documentary films in the education space, has teamed with Alexander Street, a ProQuest company, to bring their second edition collection of 1,800 titles to researchers and educators. The popularity of high-quality documentaries for research and learning is growing as students and… Read More
One billion metadata facts now on Springer Nature SciGraph - December 19, 2017
SciGraph, the Linked Open Data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March 2017, now holds over one billion metadata statements about content published by Springer Nature and links to established external datasets. The LOD platform aggregates data sources from content published across Springer Nature covering… Read More
Hypothesis annotation technology now available to publishers hosted on PubFactory platform - December 11, 2017
Hypothesis annotation technology is now available to publishers hosted on the PubFactory platform, which houses more than 400,000 books and 1,400 journals. Enabling this standards-based interoperable tool brings collaboration to any content hosted on the web, a capability foreseen by early technology visionaries like Vannevar Bush… Read More
