Journals of University of Babylon to preserve OA e-journals with Portico - November 16, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Journals of University of Babylon is preserving their open access e-journals, Journal of University of Babylon for Pure and Applied Sciences, Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences, and Journal of University of Babylon for Humanities with… Read More
Clarivate Analytics to provide citation data during REF 2021 - November 15, 2018
The UK's four higher education (HE) funding bodies have awarded Clarivate Analytics' Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) a contract to provide Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 assessment panels with citation information. This information includes data about the number of times a scholarly publication has been cited… Read More
Ochsner Journal selects HighWire as digital hosting partner - November 15, 2018
Digital publishing technology provider HighWire has announced a long-term partnership with Ochsner Journal, powering its new digital platform for the medical and healthcare research community. A global leader in open access medical research, the Ochsner Journal is published quarterly by the Academic Division of the… Read More
The University of Hyogo selects SciFinder-n from CAS to accelerate scientific research and engineering education in Japan - November 14, 2018
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society has announced a partnership with the University of Hyogo to provide SciFindern to its student population. SciFindern provides the most relevant scientific information across the expansive content collection from CAS. With SciFindern, reactions, substances and references can now… Read More
Frontier Economics’ new report outlines integral role of academic publishing in the UK - November 13, 2018
Frontier Economics has released an independent research that sets out publishing's contribution to the innovation cycle, incorporating existing research with stakeholder views. The report finds that without the highly specialised and time-intensive tasks carried out by UK academic publishers, innovation may be less effective. It also… Read More
CLOCKSS announces its TRAC re-certification - November 13, 2018
The CLOCKSS Archive, the long-term preservation service for scholarly content, has announced its TRAC re-certification by the Center for Research Libraries, based on an updated Trusted Repository Archiving Checklist audit. With grades on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), CLOCKSS maintained its score of… Read More
