Leading standards organisations, AENOR and ASTM International, sign technology deal - May 7, 2020
Two of the world’s leading standards organisations, AENOR and ASTM International, have signed a commercial technology agreement that aims to expand the reach of their respective standards and related technical documents. The signing took place in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania (USA), at the global headquarters of… Read More
ACM calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy, and scrutiny in COVID contact tracing - May 7, 2020
The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) of the world’s largest society of computing professionals, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has released detailed principles and practices for the development and deployment of ‘contact tracing’ technology intended to track and arrest the spread of COVID-19.… Read More
Research Square and Dimensions partner to provide citation data on preprints - May 7, 2020
The preprint platform Research Square has partnered with Dimensions to provide early citation data on preprints. The Dimensions Badge will now display on all Research Square preprints that have been cited and will provide four different types of data: the total citations,… Read More
Only 10% of global research output relates to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, says new Digital Science report - May 7, 2020
Technology company Digital Science has released a report highlighting the growth in research around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report Contextualising Sustainable Development Research, which was produced by Digital Science’s Consultancy Group, looks at the state of the world’s… Read More
More open access for CERN authors with a new agreement with IOPP - May 7, 2020
CERN has signed a ‘publish and read’ agreement with IOP Publishing (IOPP) to make open-access (OA) share in scientific information gain more ground in 2020. All research articles by corresponding authors with a primary or secondary affiliation to CERN, including articles… Read More
Qatar National Library Consortium and Elsevier sign combined reading and publishing pilot agreement - May 6, 2020
Qatar National Library Consortium and Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics, specialising in science and health, have announced a new pilot agreement for fully open access publishing in Qatar, which represents the company's first combined reading and… Read More
