Ringgold maps over 11,000 Open Funder Registry IDs to its Identify Database - November 23, 2016
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, has mapped more than 11,000 Open Funder Registry IDs to its Identify Database of over 440,000 organizational records. The addition of the Funder IDs provides interoperability between the two datasets. By mapping Funder IDs to Ringgold's Identify Database, organisations and… Read More
Holiday Notice - November 23, 2016
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 24-25, 2016 on account of Thanksgiving Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, November 28, 2016. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the November 23rd issue. Read More
New study proposes pragmatic scenario for transitioning the publication system towards Open Access - November 22, 2016
The Swiss National Science Foundation in collaboration with the Scientific Information programme (SUC P-2) run by swissuniversities has initiated a study, which for the first time, has developed scenarios for restructuring transitioning Switzerland's scientific publication system towards Open Access (OA). The study recommends a model that… Read More
NEJM Group announces new digital platform to engage with medical community in China - November 22, 2016
NEJM Group, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), has announced the introduction of NEJM 医学前沿 (Yi Xue Qian Yan), which translates to NEJM Frontiers in Medicine. With this initiative, the NEJM Group seeks to strengthen its ties with the Chinese medical community. … Read More
IOP Publishing and Altmetric partner to improve author services - November 22, 2016
IOP Publishing has announced a new partnership with Altmetric and Digital Science, to provide its authors and readers with a deeper understanding of how published research is being used and discussed. Authors and readers will be able… Read More
NISO announces new publishers enacting phase two of KBART guidelines - November 22, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that five publishers are now supplying metadata that conforms to phase two of the recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2014). Conformance with KBART indicates that the format and content of data supplied by these… Read More
