Research4Life partners commit to free and low cost access & training through 2025 - July 25, 2018
The Research4Life partners have agreed to extend their partnership through 2025. Research4Life currently provides over 8,500 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed eResources from the world's leading scholarly publishers. The renewed commitment will ensure that nearly 85,000… Read More
Jisc and JSTOR celebrate 20 years of partnership - July 24, 2018
Forty academic, library, and publishing leaders from across the UK and US gathered at Pembroke College on July 3, 2018 to commemorate a two-decades-long relationship between Jisc and JSTOR, two organisations jointly committed to using technology to advance research and education. JSTOR… Read More
Registrations now open for 2018 ARL-CNI Fall Forum - July 24, 2018
Registration is open for the 2018 Fall Forum, a one-day conference co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The theme of this year's Fall Forum is 'Innovation in Research Libraries,' with a focus on fostering an organisational culture… Read More
Portico explores digital preservation landscape in UKSG Insights - July 19, 2018
There has been tremendous growth in the amount of digital content created by libraries, publishers, cultural institutions and the general public. While there are great benefits to having content available in digital form, digital objects can be extremely short-lived unless proper attention is paid to preservation. The rise of… Read More
ScienceOpen and the Microbiology Society collaborate on new cross-disciplinary collections - July 18, 2018
Research network ScienceOpen and the Microbiology Society have announced a collaboration on new ways to showcase cross-disciplinary research. The ScienceOpen discovery environment provides state-of-the-art technological infrastructure to promote new initiatives from the Society's journals. Interdisciplinarity is key for the Microbiology Society in reaching a wide… Read More
AMIA launches FAMIA Applied Informatics Recognition Program - July 18, 2018
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the launch of the Fellow of AMIA (FAMIA) Applied Informatics Recognition Program. The new program aims to recognise members who apply informatics skills and knowledge within their professional setting, who have demonstrated professional achievement and leadership, and who… Read More
