ConTech 2019: Call for Speakers – submissions invited by March 29, 2019 - March 22, 2019
With just 10 days left to make a submission, ConTech has already received some excellent speaker proposals for ConTech 2019. Content creation and consumption is changing faster than ever before. This is impacting business models, patterns of behaviour and virtually every aspect of the role… Read More
Altmetric and Nature receive funding from Google Digital News Innovation - March 22, 2019
Data science company Altmetric and multidisciplinary science journal Nature will receive funding from the Google Digital News Innovation Fund to build a novel tool for measuring the impact of journalism. Journalism has an impact: news stories can drive policy change, trigger… Read More
Wiley Education Services partners with Michigan State University to provide support for existing and new online offerings - March 22, 2019
Wiley Education Services, a division of Wiley, has entered into a partnership agreement with Michigan State University to support a set of existing and new online programs as well as a certificate, leveraging market research, marketing, recruitment, and student support services. The preliminary set of two… Read More
Reprints Desk integrates Article Galaxy solution with EBSCO Discovery Service to streamline discovery-to-delivery user journey for mutual customers - March 22, 2019
A new partnership between Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc., and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) now enhances the research experience for academic and government users of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Reprints Desk’s Article Galaxy solution has been integrated… Read More
SPARC Europe elects Ignasi Labastida i Juan as new Board Chair - March 22, 2019
SPARC Europe has elected Ignasi Labastida i Juan as new Chair of the Board at its March 2019 Board Meeting. Ignasi works in the Research Unit of the CRAI (Learning and Research Resources Center-Library) at the University of Barcelona (UB). Ignasi has been working on… Read More
Growing international collaboration not yet enough to halt decline in Japan’s research output, reports Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement - March 21, 2019
The Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement shows that global research performance in Japan continues to fall, but the number of international research partnerships is increasing. Japan’s contribution to high-quality scientific research fell by 19.9 percent between January 2012 and October 2018. But efforts to increase international… Read More
