ORCID’s funder working group publishes its recommendations - September 6, 2019
ORCID's Funder Working Group, part of the ORBIT (ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency) initiative, has published three reports summarising their work to date. The reports cover ORCID and grant DOIs and the use of ORCID in grant applications and grant reporting processes. Collectively, they… Read More
Ex Libris integrates Altmetric badges into the Esploro research services solution - September 6, 2019
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, and Altmetric have announced the integration of Altmetric badges with the Esploro research services solution. The Altmetric badges, which offer an at-a-glance summary of online engagement with each publication, will be added to research publication pages in Esploro, providing users… Read More
De Gruyter appoints Lyndsey Dixon as Global Journals Director - September 6, 2019
Academic publisher De Gruyter has hired Lyndsey Dixon as Global Journals Director to expand and strengthen its journals portfolio, including open access journals. Dixon joins De Gruyter from Taylor & Francis, where she spent the last ten years of her career and where she was… Read More
NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and Elsevier in deal for use of NCATS’ rare disease database - September 5, 2019
Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have agreed to allow Elsevier to access NCATS’ rare disease database. The Genetic and… Read More
Taylor & Francis partners with the Federation of European Materials Societies to launch a new OA journal – European Journal of Materials - September 5, 2019
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis and the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) have announced the launch of a new open-access journal, European Journal of Materials (EJM). EJM will publish high-quality research across the entire discipline of materials science. The journal was officially launched at… Read More
DOAJ and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies collaborate on new pilot to encourage Finnish open access journals to apply to DOAJ - September 5, 2019
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) are collaborating on a pilot project to encourage and help peer-reviewed open access (OA) journals published in Finland to be indexed in DOAJ. The Pilot runs from May 2019 to May… Read More
