Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Elsevier sign IT professorship deal to support Berlin’s digital agenda - April 4, 2017
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and information analytics company Elsevier have signed an agreement to launch an information management professorship at the university as part of the Einstein Center Digital Future. This builds on Humboldt's existing collaboration with Elsevier in the HEADT Centre and supports Berlin's position as… Read More
European Commission mulls over setting up publishing platform for scientists it funds - April 3, 2017
The European Commission, which spends over €10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, and set up a publishing platform for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition… Read More
BioRAFT in deal with Stanford University to acquire ChemTracker brand and intellectual property - March 31, 2017
BioRAFT, a Digital Science portfolio company, has entered into an agreement with Stanford University to acquire the ChemTracker brand and intellectual property. Through this agreement BioRAFT will be able to integrate ChemTracker's powerful chemical safety and regulatory information database with BioRAFT's… Read More
Spanish National Research Council selects Ex Libris Alma to help improve support for scientific research in Spain - March 31, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, or CSIC) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service to strengthen the Council's support for Spain's scientific research endeavours. Alma will be integrated with CSIC's implementation… Read More
Clarivate Analytics hosts publishing partners to discuss trends - March 31, 2017
One of the key challenges faced by a publisher is reassuring their authors that their content will be found when someone searches for it. As a leader across the entire information services landscape and a company that collects, curates and indexes researcher content, Clarivate Analytics brought… Read More
The MIT Press integrates Altmetric Badges for Books into its book pages - March 30, 2017
Data science company Altmetric has announced that The MIT Press has integrated Altmetric Badges for Books into its book pages. Visitors will be provided with an at-a-glance summary of the online attention relating to all of their monograph titles, discovering for the… Read More
