Springer Nature and UNESCO sign new OA books partnership - April 24, 2020
Springer Nature and UNESCO have announced the signing of a framework agreement encompassing the publication of open access books focusing on UNESCO’s main pillars, notably education, the natural and social human sciences, culture, and communication and information areas. Written by experts affiliated to UNESCO, these… Read More
Academic Emergency Medicine and Wiley collaborate to offer full access to online collection of breaking COVID-19 research - April 24, 2020
Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the monthly journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with Wiley Publishing, is fast-tracking submissions related to COVID-19 and making the latest, most relevant research available in an easy-to-navigate, freely accessible online collection of accepted and citable articles. The… Read More
Cannabis Science and Technology partners with the American Chemical Society’s Cannabis Chemistry Subdivision - April 23, 2020
Cannabis Science and TechnologyTM, a multimedia platform that focuses on educating the legal cannabis industry about the science and technology of analytical testing, quality control, extraction, and cultivation, has announced a partnership with the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Cannabis Chemistry Subdivision (CANN).… Read More
HighWire and CloudFlare working together to keep medical journals online in face of surging COVID-19 traffic - April 22, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire is working with Cloudflare Inc., the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, to ensure that the world’s information stays online, accessible and responsive during the COVID-19 global pandemic. HighWire customers across the board are seeing… Read More
Ex Libris and InfoReady Corporation partner to enable streamlined solution for pre-award research administrators - April 22, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has signed an agreement with the InfoReady Corporation, an Ann Arbor-based technology company dedicated to streamlining the information overload typically associated with its customers business objectives. Under the deal, Ex Libris will be the exclusive reseller of the InfoReady ReviewTM software… Read More
Penn State University Press and EBSCO partner to make e-titles available during COVID-19 pandemic - April 22, 2020
Penn State University Press has partnered with EBSCO Information Services to provide unlimited access to Press e-books for library clients through the EBSCO platform until June 30. The Press is offering discounted pricing to libraries through EBSCO for unlimited access to e-titles… Read More
Elsevier’s PharmaPendium collaborates with ExactCure to review 20 approved drugs for COVID-19 therapies - April 21, 2020
Elsevier has announced a collaboration with ExactCure, a personalised medicine software startup that uses AI technology to reduce medication errors. Using access to PharmaPendium data, which includes searchable FDA/EMA drug approval documents, as well as pharmacokinetic and efficacy data, ExactCure is developing personalised model simulations that… Read More
CERN to centrally cover APCs for Frontiers’ journals - April 21, 2020
Open-access publisher Frontiers has announced that the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), will centrally cover article processing charges (APCs) for eligible articles by its researchers published in any Frontiers journal. Furthermore, CERN will… Read More
NIST and OSTP launch joint effort to advance search engines for COVID-19 research - April 20, 2020
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have launched a joint effort to support the development of search engines for research that will help in the… Read More
NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options - April 20, 2020
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) are bringing together more than a dozen leading biopharmaceutical companies, the Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S.… Read More
