AMA, Harvard Health Publishing sever ties with Outcome Health - November 21, 2017
The American Medical Association and Harvard Health Publishing have reportedly suspended their partnerships with Outcome Health amid speculations that the Chicago-based tech and advertising startup misled advertisers. According to reports in The Wall Street Journal, the organisations have decided to 'pause' their partnerships with Outcome Health… Read More
Journal of Dairy Science celebrates 100 years of progress - November 21, 2017
The Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS), first published in 1917, is celebrating 100 years of progress. Since its first issue, the journal has published almost 30,000 articles and 200,000 pages. In the process, the work published in the journal has made a broad and invaluable contribution… Read More
Rebranded Alpine Entomology journal joins Pensoft’s OA portfolio - November 21, 2017
Scholarly publisher Pensoft has announced that the Swiss Entomological Society's official journal Die Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft (Journal of the Swiss Entomological Society) is the latest historical scientific journal to join the lines of Pensoft's portfolio. As a result of a unanimous vote at… Read More
The University of Manchester selects Kudos to maximize research visibility and impact - November 21, 2017
Kudos, the service for maximising the reach and impact of research publications, has announced that the University of Manchester is the latest institution to sign up for Kudos for Institutions, which provides research tools and intelligence to help universities maximise dissemination of research. Kudos is… Read More
ProQuest adds 24 primary sources to its Jisc Purchasing Pilot - November 21, 2017
ProQuest is adding 24 primary sources to its offering through the Jisc Digital archival collections group purchasing pilot, following the successful adoption of its databases by 20 universities during the initial period earlier this year. The Jisc program's goal is to lower… Read More
Springer Nature launches one-year pilot with PaperHive - November 20, 2017
Springer Nature has launched a one-year pilot with PaperHive, an annotation system and copyright-compliant collaborative research platform. The partnership focuses on increasing reader engagement of university students with academic literature in various fields including biomedicine, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. The pilot phase comprises books and textbooks… Read More
