Presentations and discussions at COAR annual meeting 2016 - May 9, 2016
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) conducted its Annual Meeting and General Assembly on April 12-13, 2016 in Vienna/Austria. Through a diverse mix of conference sessions, round-table discussions and open dialogue, the meeting pushed attendees to examine the future of repositories and the challenges and… Read More
CrossRef to enable registration for preprints - May 6, 2016
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, will enable registration for preprints by August 2016. Crossref's original registration policy prevented its members from registering content and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to 'duplicative works.' The new policy means that preprints will have separate DOIs… Read More
New app supports top women’s health, obstetric and neonatal publications - May 6, 2016
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and STM publisher Elsevier Inc. have announced a new app that helps to share cutting-edge research on women's health, obstetric, and neonatal nursing. The AWHONN Journals app brings these two leading nursing… Read More
Blazegraph 2.1.0 graph database now enables geospatial searching and PubChem data processing - May 5, 2016
Blazegraph, a provider of highly scalable software for solving complex graph and machine learning algorithms, has announced version 2.1.0, with significant updates that give users faster, easier access to key data sets, such as new support for processing geospatial coordinates and optimizing queries against the National… Read More
Australian Research Council to use Thomson Reuters Web of Science for analysis of benefits from university research - May 5, 2016
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) recently obtained Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ Core Collection as one of the data sources to contribute to analyses that will be utilised by the… Read More
TrendMD and ReadCube integration across Ingenta Connect to enhance discovery of scholarly article - May 4, 2016
Ingenta, a provider of technology and associated services to the publishing and information industries, has partnered with the scholarly discovery services TrendMD and ReadCube to boost discoverability of articles hosted on its aggregated content portal Ingenta Connect. The platform integration with… Read More
