CABI partners with PlumX to measure impact of agricultural and environmental research - April 15, 2015
Scientists at CABI will be able to gauge the impact of their agricultural and environmental research in several unique ways by partnering with PlumX from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company. As part of a six-month pilot program, CABI is using PlumX metrics… Read More
SHARE unveils beta version of free notification service, SHARE Notify - April 15, 2015
SHARE has launched a public beta version of its free notification service, SHARE Notify, to make research more widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. Stakeholders in the research enterprise - funding agencies, institutions, and individual researchers - often find it challenging to keep track of new research… Read More
Springer and Altmetric launch Bookmetrix, a new platform for book impact - April 14, 2015
STM publisher Springer has become the first publisher to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books via a new platform, Bookmetrix. Developed in partnership with metrics provider Altmetric, the data captured via Bookmetrix is displayed on the book pages on Springer’s content… Read More
The University of Minnesota Press and Columbia University Press to join OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online - April 14, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that The University of Minnesota Press will join University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) in August 2015. The Minnesota Scholarship Online (tentatively called MPSO) site will go live with 389 titles across a broad range of subject areas. … Read More
EDP Sciences in deal with Portico to preserve e-journals - April 13, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that EDP Sciences, a learned-society owned publisher, will preserve its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences), a subsidiary of several… Read More
Scientific Research Publishing chooses Portico for e-journal preservation - April 9, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) will preserve its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. SCIRP is based in the US and China. SCIRP is one of the largest Open Access journal… Read More
