The 2017 CWTS Leiden Ranking uses Web of Science data from Clarivate Analytics - May 22, 2017
The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2017 has shared insights into the scientific performance of over 900 worldwide universities from 54 different countries. The ranking looks at all universities worldwide with more than 1,000 fractionally counted Web of Science indexed core publications between 2012 and 2015. The ranking provides statistics on… Read More
ARL announces SPEC Survey webcast on Data Curation - May 18, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of free webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast will follow the publication of each SPEC Kit in 2017.… Read More
JSTOR and AAAS expand access to Science via JSTOR platform - May 18, 2017
JSTOR and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have renewed their longstanding agreement to preserve and make available over 100 years of Science via the JSTOR platform. JSTOR and AAAS first began working together in 1998 when Science… Read More
Digital Science expands internationally, opens subsidiary company in Moscow, Russia - May 17, 2017
Digital Science, a business division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and a global technology company focused on jumpstarting innovation in the research community, has opened a subsidiary company, Digital Science & Research LLC based in Moscow, Russia. The company will be led by Dr. Igor Osipov as… Read More
RedLink announces testing partnership with Canadian Science Publishing for Remarq, a new editorial engagement tool for publishers - May 17, 2017
RedLink has announced a testing partnership with Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) for Remarq™, a new tool for publishers offering annotation, commenting, article sharing, and collaboration, all on the publisher's site and utilising the version of record. Remarq™ keeps researchers and readers… Read More
Paula Stephan and Jeffrey Mervis to be featured keynote presenters at the Society for Scholarly Publishing 39th Annual Meeting - May 17, 2017
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its keynote speakers for the SSP 39th Annual Meeting to be held May 31-June 2 in Boston, MA, will be Paula Stephan and Jeffrey Mervis. Stephan will speak on May 31. Stephan's research interests focus on the… Read More