National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to move flagship journal Environmental Health Perspectives to Atypon’s Literatum online publishing platform - March 8, 2018
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the institutes comprising the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), will move its flagship journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), to Atypon's Literatum online publishing platform. It will be the first US government… Read More
ProQuest Dialog database adds Northern Light database for real-time access to breaking information from life sciences events - March 7, 2018
Pharmaceutical researchers and other users of the ProQuest Dialog® professional search service can now access more than 2.7 million abstracts and posters from medical and life sciences conferences around the world. ProQuest Dialog has announced a partnership with Northern Light, making its… Read More
Digital Science and Katalysis launch pilot project to test blockchain technologies - March 7, 2018
Technology company Digital Science and Katalysis, a startup based in Amsterdam, have announced the launch of a pilot project to test blockchain technologies to support the peer review process. They are joined in this pilot project by founding partner Springer Nature. The problems of research… Read More
De Gruyter to publish Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal - March 7, 2018
Academic publisher De Gruyter and MittUniversitetet, the Mid Sweden University (MiUn), will collaborate to publish the Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal (NPPRJ). The journal was until now self-published by MiUn in co-operation with 9 other universities in Sweden, Finland and Norway. The new cooperation starts… Read More
Wiener Neustadt libraries are first in Austria to go live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services - March 7, 2018
Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences and the Public Library Wiener Neustadt are the first libraries in Austria to go live with OCLC's cloud-based WorldShare Management Services. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) is the cloud-based library services platform that provides all of the applications needed to… Read More
Frontiers to host second Data Services Workshop on April 24, 2018 - March 7, 2018
Frontiers will host its second Data Services Workshop, to be held on April 24, 2018 at the Hotel Renaissance in Brussels. The meeting is organised in collaboration with the EU Horizon 2020 projects OpenMinTed and OpenUp, in which Frontiers is a full partner, and SwissCore, the… Read More