Heidi Fraser-Krauss named new CEO of Jisc - June 30, 2021
Heidi Fraser-Krauss, currently executive director of corporate services at the University of Sheffield, will join Jisc as the new CEO, effective September 16, 2021. She will succeed Paul Feldman, who is retiring after a six-year stint at the helm. She has since held a variety of leadership roles in higher education, where… Read More
Springer Nature introduces name change policy to enable transgender scholars and others to update their name on published works - June 29, 2021
Springer Nature has announced the launch of its inclusive author name change policy, which will enable transgender authors and those authors at risk to retroactively update their name on the version of record (VOR) and associated metadata in all Springer Nature journals, books and conference proceedings. … Read More
SciBite launches SaaS versions of CENtree ontology management and TERMite text analysis solutions - June 29, 2021
Semantic technology company SciBite, an Elsevier company, has unveiled its new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of TERMite, SciBite’s named entity recognition engine, and its CENtree™ ontology management platform. Researchers can use the new cloud-hosted TERMite and CENtree as part of their digital workplace, offering greater… Read More
IEEE and IReL announce new transformative open access agreement - June 29, 2021
Technical professional organization IEEE has reached an open access read and publish agreement with IReL, the Irish licensing consortium. The transformative read and publish agreement enables corresponding IReL authors to publish open access articles in IEEE’s industry-leading journals and provides reading access to over five million… Read More
IET unveils Inspec Analytics Plus to augment analysis of collaboration and research impact - June 29, 2021
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the launch of Inspec Analytics Plus, a new addition to the Inspec suite of research solutions, which expands the existing capability of Inspec Analytics, the IET’s award-winning research intelligence tool. Inspec Analytics Plus incorporates citation data and… Read More
New transformative agreement between IOP Publishing and MALMAD to benefit leading institutions in Israel - June 29, 2021
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed a new open access transformative agreement with Israeli academic consortium the Israeli Inter University Centre for Digital Information Services (MALMAD). As part of the three year ‘read and publish’ agreement, which runs until the end of 2023, researchers affiliated with the… Read More
