eLife and Stencila announce next phase of development for the Executable Research Article project - March 3, 2021
eLife, in collaboration with Stencila, has announced the next phase of development for the Executable Research Article (ERA), bringing computationally reproducible research papers to more authors and publishers. The organisations have partnered on the open-source ERA project since 2017, taking it from the idea stage through… Read More
John Wiley and Sons partners with Coinifide and XR Terra to launch online courses in the emerging fields of technology - March 1, 2021
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, has announced new partnerships with Coinifide and XR Terra to deliver online learning and live bootcamp courses in the booming disciplines of blockchain, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) for business. The new offerings… Read More
Cambridge University Press’ Open Engage platform to host chemistry preprint server ChemRxiv - March 1, 2021
ChemRxiv, a preprint server for the chemical sciences, has announced that the server will be hosted on the Cambridge Open Engage platform, beginning in the second quarter of 2021. Authors posting to ChemRxiv will now benefit from an improved experience. They will continue to be able to… Read More
EDP Sciences confirms full integration of ORCID in its new online submission system, NESTOR - March 1, 2021
EDP Sciences launched its new submission system NESTOR (New Editorial System Tool for Research) in July 2020. The submission system was the first to fully integrate video submissions. Now, a few months later, EDP Sciences confirms the full integration of ORCID in NESTOR. This… Read More
The IET and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China sign MoU to support academic research in China - February 25, 2021
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to participate in mutually beneficial activities to support the scientific research community in China. Under the agreement, the two institutes will collaborate… Read More
Accucoms expands publisher representation for The Geological Society of London and Human Kinetics in Australia - February 25, 2021
Specialized marketing, sales and customer support services provider Accucoms has announced that it has expanded publisher representation for The Geological Society of London and Human Kinetics in Australia. With over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry and a wealth of knowledge on STM and… Read More
Elsevier donates original drawings of the Pernkopf Anatomy Atlas to Medical University of Vienna - February 24, 2021
Elsevier, an information analytics company specializing in science and health, has announced that it has donated original drawings and other materials of the famous Pernkopf Atlas of Anatomy from its assets to the collections of the Medical University of Vienna (Josephinum). Additionally, Elsevier is funding the digitization,… Read More
SAGE Campus and SAGE Video products appointed to the APUC Framework Agreement - February 23, 2021
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that its SAGE Campus and SAGE Video products have been appointed to the Advanced Procurement for Universities and College (APUC) Framework Agreement for the provision of online streaming and online training services. This two-year agreement will enable librarians at APUC’s… Read More
LIBER and ADBU sign Memorandum of Understanding - February 23, 2021
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between LIBER and ADBU (Association des directeurs et personnels de direction des bibliothèques universitaires et de la documentation) has recently been approved. The MoU was signed off during LIBER’s Executive Board Meeting on the Feb 11, 2021 and by ADBU’s Board… Read More
Publishers announce Read & Publish agreements - February 22, 2021
Scholarly publisher AIP Publishing has announced a Read and Publish agreement with Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), located in Austria. Through this agreement all researchers at TU Graz will have access to 19 journals from the AIP Publishing portfolio (including select journals published on behalf of… Read More
