UKRI confirms COVID-19 grant extension allocation to ensure crucial world-leading research - June 29, 2020
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced deployment of £180 million of funding for organisations to sustain UKRI grant-funded research and fellowships affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is part of a wider package announced by the Government to support the continuation… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 29, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sarah Andrus, Jacklyn Lord and Karen Stanwood (Guest Post — Navigating Your Career in Publishing: Introducing the SSP Professional Skills Map); James Clay (Translation vs transformation: facilitating positive change through a crisis); Jill Shuman (4 key reasons why information specialists… Read More
EBSCO Information Services develops SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries to improve usage reporting - June 26, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has developed a new resource to make harvesting COUNTER reports easier. The SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries (the R5 Harvester) is a Microsoft® Access® tool designed to help small to medium size consortia more easily gather COUNTER reports for their affiliated libraries.… Read More
Google set to launch ‘new news experience’ later this year; to pay publishers to license content - June 26, 2020
Google has announced that it will begin paying news publishers for ‘high-quality content’ with the launch of a ‘new news experience’ later this year. The move marks a major departure for Google, which has until now steadfastly refused to compensate news publishers for content. As news organisations’ digital advertising revenues… Read More
Peer Review Week 2020 to focus on trust in peer review through events and campaigns - June 26, 2020
This year’s Peer Review Week (PRW), a yearly event led by academic publishers and societies, as well as other scholarly organisations, is dedicated to “Trust in Peer Review.” During the week of September 21 - 25, participating organisations will highlight the critical role of peer review… Read More
UCL COVID-19 Collection benefits authors, publishers, and users - June 26, 2020
The global pandemic has elicited a resounding response from the academic community in terms of research regarding the novel coronavirus disease. From the onset, ScienceOpen has been working with publishers and researchers to create COVID-19 resources that help organise the massive amount of research being published.… Read More
