South Korean universities reach agreement with Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect - January 17, 2018
A consortium of hundreds of South Korean universities has reportedly reached a new deal with scientific publisher Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect, a database containing content from 3500 academic journals and thousands of electronic books. The agreement includes price hikes between 3.5%… Read More
Nominees for Clarivate Analytics Cortellis “Deal of the Year” awards announced at 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference - January 17, 2018
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, revealed that the market value of the most innovative and impactful global life sciences transactions of 2017 increased by 6% totalling US $364 billion, despite a decrease in overall… Read More
Oxford University Press joins the Initiative for Open Citations - January 17, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. I4OC is a project which promotes the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data… Read More
Bladder Cancer named official journal of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network - January 17, 2018
STM publisher IOS Press and the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN), have announced that the journal Bladder Cancer will now become the official journal of BCAN. As the result of this new partnership, Bladder Cancer and BCAN will combine resources to support a readily accessible… Read More
National Taiwan University selects Ex Libris Alma Library Services - January 17, 2018
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that National Taiwan University (NTU) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform to replace the school's library management system. In addition, NTU's local implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution will be migrated… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. set to publish new peer-reviewed journal – Bioelectricity - January 17, 2018
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced that it will publish Bioelectricity, a peer-reviewed journal and an influential and dynamic meeting place for the rapidly growing bioelectricity community. Spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief, Dany Spencer Adams, Tufts University, Bioelectricity will be published online and in print with open access… Read More
