Collaborative research and development initiative, Building a National Finding Aid Network, receives IMLS funding - July 29, 2020
The California Digital Library has announced a $982,175 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS – National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant program) to conduct a two-year research and demonstration project designed to build the foundation for a national archival finding aid network.… Read More
Library’s linked-data project gets new grant - July 29, 2020
A $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is boosting a multi-institution initiative to develop tools and workflows that improve the sharing of catalogue data among libraries and help internet users discover library resources on the web. Known as Linked Data for Production,… Read More
Ken Audus named as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - July 29, 2020
Ken Audus has been named as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is the professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in University of Kansas and former School of Pharmacy dean. Audus will be the 14th editor of the publication that was founded in 1852. He replaces… Read More
Europe PMC partners with UKCDR to make COVID-19 grant information more widely available and accessible - July 28, 2020
As a response to the current pandemic crisis, organisations worldwide have increasingly made funding available for COVID-19 research. As part of the COVID CIRCLE programme, the Medical Research Council (MRC) has worked with the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLoPID-R)… Read More
ScienceDirect integrates SeamlessAccess to provide researchers with improved remote access options - July 28, 2020
Elsevier's world-leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature, ScienceDirect, has integrated SeamlessAccess to provide researchers with convenient and secure institutional access to its site, anytime, anywhere and on any device. Researchers will now see an 'Access through your institution' button clearly marked on ScienceDirect. When they click… Read More
Digital driving 2019 growth in academic publishing - July 28, 2020
2019 saw the invoiced value of combined UK publisher sales of academic and professional books and journals rise by 1.3%, to nearly £3.3bn – 25.8% higher than in 2015. Digital is driving this growth in academic publishing, with a 4.2% rise in digital sales revenue in 2019 slightly outweighing… Read More
