Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 12, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Transitioning to a More Unified Platform); Phill Jones (What’s so Wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 1); Janne-Tuomas Seppänen (Troubling Noises – Why Scientific Peer Review Is not Broken but Needs to Be Fixed); Sabina Leonelli and… Read More
Thomson Reuters to deploy Watson technology to enhance customer solutions - October 9, 2015
Thomson Reuters and IBM have entered into an agreement to enhance customer solutions across Thomson Reuters using Watson. The collaboration underscores the ongoing commitment by Thomson Reuters to deliver innovative technology solutions within specific industry domains to its customers via its in-house… Read More
YBP Library Services and EBSCO increase collaboration with Irish academic community - October 9, 2015
YBP Library Services (YBP) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will be working more closely with academic institutions in Ireland after agreeing to new contracts to supply e-books and journals. The tenders were issued and managed by Education Procurement Services (EPS) over the… Read More
Public access to results of NSF-funded research - October 9, 2015
The National Science Foundation (NSF or Foundation) has developed a plan outlining a framework for activities to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data resulting from research using the foundation funds. The plan, entitled 'Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries,' is consistent with the objectives… Read More
De Gruyter’s new open access pricing model to prevent ‘double dipping’ - October 9, 2015
Academic publisher De Gruyter is introducing a new pricing model that prevents 'double dipping' with open access publications. Double dipping is when publishers are paid twice for articles in hybrid journals, on the one hand through charging for the open access publication itself and, on the… Read More
New course materials solutions from ProQuest SIPX reduce costs for students and improve workflow efficiency - October 9, 2015
ProQuest SIPX, provider of the most complete digital course materials solutions in higher education, has launched three new options to support unique teaching and learning workflows: SIPX Central, SIPX Campus and SIPX for MOOCs. The SIPX innovative digital course materials solutions address a variety of copyright… Read More
