EPLF is latest European institution to adopt Altmetrics to complement existing bibliometric analysis - June 6, 2017
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has announced that École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has become the latest institution to adopt the Explorer for Institutions platform to help analyse the online engagement surrounding its scholarly research outputs. With an intuitive interface which enables users to browse,… Read More
Cengage announces major initiative to fight growing problem of counterfeit course materials - June 6, 2017
Cengage, an education and technology company, has announced a major initiative to fight the growing problem of counterfeit print course materials, which is estimated to cost the company between $70 million to $100 million annually. Beginning with shipments currently underway to on-campus, off-campus and online retailers,… Read More
Nominations for Early Career Research Award now open - June 6, 2017
Future Science Group (FSG) has announced that nominations are now open for the 2017 Early Career Research Award. The award is designed to recognise an outstanding early career researcher working in a biomedical field. The award has been launched by Future Science OA, the open access… Read More
Institution of Engineering and Technology to host global STEM competition in the UK - June 6, 2017
The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) skills of hundreds of budding young engineers will be challenged when they compete in a robotic competition for students organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), hosted at the University of Bath and sponsored by Bechtel. … Read More
CiteScore releases 2016 annual values and updates - June 5, 2017
Elsevier, a global information analytics company specialising in science and health, has released CiteScore 2016 annual values and a number of improvements to its set of simple, reproducible serial metrics that cover all journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications in Scopus. CiteScore metrics now… Read More
IET calls on the electrical industry to have its say on the 18th Edition of IET Wiring Regulations - June 5, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is calling on the electrical industry to have its say and influence the content of the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671), following the release of the Draft for Public Comment (DPC) for BS 7671:2018. … Read More
