CABI backs use of open data in agricultural science at APEC symposium in Beijing - December 15, 2017
CABI contributed to an Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Symposium on Agricultural Science Data Sharing and Service which brought together over 30 participants from 15 countries within APEC and other national and international organisations at a meeting in Beijing. The aim of the symposium was… Read More
CAS announces availability of new whitepaper – Global Science & Technology Report: Graphene Research & Development - December 15, 2017
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the availability of the whitepaper, Global Science & Technology Report: Graphene Research & Development, highlighting key trends in the dynamic graphene research landscape. Published in Chinese and English, this inaugural report results from a joint effort… Read More
Bowker to supply data for Book+Main - December 15, 2017
Book+Main, a social media company that enables readers to engage with their favourite authors and discover new ones, has announced a partnership with Bowker to connect them with metadata to enhance their business. Bowker is a ProQuest affiliate and acts as the retail agent for ProQuest's… Read More
ORCID User Facilities and Publications Working Group working collectively to promote facilities use - December 14, 2017
The ORCID User Facilities and Publications Working Group has issued a report that suggests a route to improved attribution and acknowledgement of research support related to use of facilities and specialised equipment, and better tools for the capture and analysis of that information. The Working… Read More
CLOCKSS and Code Ocean announce preservation deal - December 14, 2017
Code Ocean and CLOCKSS have announced that Code Ocean will preserve its compute capsules in the CLOCKSS Archive to ensure the long-term accessibility of code associated with research articles. Code Ocean is a computational reproducibility platform enabling researchers to run, share, discover code in an executable,… Read More
New engineering network, EngRN, launches on SSRN platform - December 14, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that SSRN, its preprint server and early stage research platform, is launching a dedicated engineering network, EngRN. EngRN supports early stage research sharing in all areas of engineering, including aerospace, bioengineering, chemical, civil, electrical,… Read More
