Enago announces key STM publishing industry appointments - July 9, 2019
Author services provider Enago has announced the addition to its senior team of two experienced STM publishing professionals. Reinhard Schuelke joins as Vice President Strategic Alliances and Tony O’Rourke as Vice President, Partnerships. They will drive Enago’s relationships and business with publishers, research institutions and the… Read More
Clarivate Analytics and Hitachi partner to launch new solution to improve efficiency of global patent research, review and evaluation processes in Japan - July 3, 2019
Clarivate Analytics plc, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and Hitachi, Ltd. have announced the launch of a new solution in Japan, which is designed to streamline research and evaluation of worldwide patent documents. Customers of Hitachi’s… Read More
NISO publishes Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally-Provided Information Resources - July 3, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally-Provided Information Resources. This NISO Recommended Practice provides recommendations for using federated identity as an access model and improving the federated authentication user experience, arising from the Resource Access for… Read More
CAS launches computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis solution, drives increase in R&D productivity - July 2, 2019
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific information solutions, has launched a computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis solution that systematically identifies new pathways to chemical compounds. Now available to all SciFindern users, this next-generation capability is empowering chemistry researchers around the world to rapidly… Read More
NISO, NFAIS merger finalised - July 2, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have announced that efforts to merge the two organisations have been successfully completed. The fully-integrated entity consists of more than 250 libraries, government agencies, associations, and content… Read More
HighWire provides hosting and submissions technology for the new preprint server - June 26, 2019
Scholarly publishing tech provider, HighWire, is supporting the founders of medRxiv, by providing the hosting and submissions technology that underpins the new preprint server. medRxiv, is a collaboration between its founding organisations, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), BMJ and Yale University. It is a free… Read More