Elsevier and Times Higher Education (THE) extend partnership in multi-year agreement - January 22, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health which is part of RELX Group, and Times Higher Education (THE), the data provider underpinning university excellence in every continent across the world, have announced their extended partnership in a multi-year agreement. This will see… Read More
University College Dublin to use OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to transform library collections - January 22, 2018
OCLC has announced that University College Dublin (UCD), one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities, will use OCLC Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to tackle collection management challenges as it redefines its library services and facilities. UCD is currently ranked within the top one percent of institutions… Read More
Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network announce re-appointment of Clare Appavoo for five-year term - January 22, 2018
The Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has announced the re-appointment of Clare Appavoo as the organisation's Executive Director for a further five year term, effective January 1, 2018. Since joining CRKN in December 2012, Clare has proven to be a… Read More
Pensoft integrates its journals with Catalogue of Life - January 22, 2018
Scholarly publisher Pensoft has implemented a new integration with the global organisation Catalogue of Life (CoL), so that it joins in the effort to encourage authors publishing global taxonomic review in any of the publisher's journals to upload their taxonomic contributions to the database. Whenever… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 22, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alison Mudditt (Countering the Über-Brands: The Case for the Megajournal); Phil Baty (This is why we publish the World University Rankings); Roger C. Schonfeld (A New Citation Database Launches Today: Digital Science’s Dimensions); Björn Brembs and Guy Geltner (The scholarly… Read More
FinELib consortium and Elsevier in deal for subscription access and open access publishing - January 19, 2018
The FinELib consortium and Elsevier have signed an agreement making Elsevier's globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose. The three-year contract applies to 13 Finnish universities, 11 research institutions and… Read More
