ProQuest partners with St. Andrews University to advance early modern area research - February 9, 2016
ProQuest is collaborating with the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) at St. Andrews University in Scotland to leverage the USTC to improve access and discoverability of materials essential to researchers of the early modern era. USTC is a fast-growing, online analytical database of books published… Read More
Pure Earth to preserve e-journals with Portico - February 9, 2016
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Pure Earth will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. Pure Earth is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to solving pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where human health… Read More
Wolters Kluwer experts to discuss ICD-10 lessons learned and best practices in upcoming complimentary webinar - February 9, 2016
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that medical informatics experts from Health Language® will host a complimentary webinar to discuss best practices and lessons learned from the industry's mammoth transition… Read More
Elsevier and ICPSR announce data linking between research articles and datasets - February 9, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a leader in providing curated research data to the behavioral and social science community, have implemented two-way linking between research articles and datasets. Over 400 Elsevier journals will offer… Read More
SHARE initiative to host preconference workshop and curate-a-thon at FORCE2016 Conference - February 8, 2016
The SHARE initiative is offering a preconference workshop and curate-a-thon on April 17 in Portland, Oregon, at the FORCE2016 Conference organised by FORCE11, which aims to improve knowledge creation and sharing by encouraging better use of new technologies. SHARE is building… Read More
ITHAKA S+R releases new report on costs of publishing scholarly monographs - February 8, 2016
AAUP heralds ITHAKA S+R's publication of 'The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Towards a Transparent Methodology.' The study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and conducted by Nancy Maron and Kimberly Schmelzinger, developed a ground-up, activity-based methodology for… Read More
