Thomson Reuters’ Analytics World Challenge to identify which World Cup competitor leads in scientific research - June 5, 2014
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge, a unique competition designed to measure the research impact of countries participating in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament. The competition… Read More
Elsevier to publish OA journal Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal on behalf of the Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology - June 5, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology (RNCSB) have announced their collaborative relationship in publishing open access journal, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ). The journal will publish its first issue with Elsevier in June 2014. Computational and Structural… Read More
EBSCO and Infotrieve partnership to bring EBSCO Discovery Service searching to Mobile Library platform - June 5, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Infotrieve Inc. have partnered to allow mutual customers to combine their search, content access, rights management and document delivery in one platform. Customers will now be able to use Infotrieve’s Mobile Library™ as their e-content access and management platform while using… Read More
SAGE to publish The British Journal of Occupational Therapy - June 5, 2014
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced that as of January 2015 it will be publishing one of the foremost occupational therapy journals, The British Journal of Occupational Therapy (BJOT). Previously self published, The British Journal of Occupational Therapy is the official research journal of… Read More
Association of Research Libraries names Rikk Mulligan program officer for scholarly publishing - June 5, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Rikk Mulligan program officer for scholarly publishing, effective July 14, 2014. His two-year fellowship position has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) through their Public Fellows Program. In this position, Mulligan will work… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center announces alpha release of extracted features dataset - June 5, 2014
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes. Features are data attributes defined in such a way that they can be identified by a computer and analysed at scale.… Read More
