Asociación Mexicana de Microbiología adopts five Microbiology Society journals as affiliated titles - April 17, 2019
The Microbiology Society and Asociación Mexicana de Microbiología, A.C. (AMM) have announced that the AMM has adopted five of the Microbiology Society journals as affiliated titles. The AMM promotes and supports the teaching of microbiology throughout Mexico and engages with microbiologists… Read More
Scilligence selects Elsevier’s Reaxys to help chemists improve efficiency - April 16, 2019
Scilligence, a provider of cheminformatics and bioinformatics solutions for the life sciences industry, has selected Elsevier's Reaxys to help chemists improve efficiency and productivity. Chemists often begin their work by following a manual process, searching for information and transferring that information between… Read More
Wolters Kluwer joins CHORUS initiative - April 15, 2019
Healthcare information solutions and services provider Wolters Kluwer has joined CHORUS as a member. CHORUS membership includes a diverse, cooperative group of publishers, publishing platforms, and industry organisations with which CHORUS currently monitors over 611,000 articles for public access and long-term… Read More
Union County College and Cengage to provide students with cost savings textbook service - April 12, 2019
Union County (NJ) College has partnered with Cengage to provide their students with the revolutionary cost savings textbook service. Beginning in Fall 2019, Union County College students will have day-one access to their textbooks and course materials using a new subscription service from Cengage. Included as… Read More
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences sign historic agreement - April 11, 2019
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has signed a historic scientific cooperation agreement with The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH). The purpose of the accord is to benefit outstanding scientists in both countries and to formalise cooperative relations between… Read More
OCLC announces Gwinnett County Public Library as newest early adopter for OCLC Wise - April 11, 2019
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC has announced that the Gwinnett County Public Library has signed on to implement OCLC Wise, the first community engagement system for US public libraries. Gwinnett County Public Library (GCPL) joins Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Anythink,… Read More
Hindawi and SciencePOD partner to magnify impact of published research - April 10, 2019
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced a new partnership with SciencePOD, a network of highly talented and multilingual science writers. SciencePOD will work with Hindawi to help the scientific research published in their journals to reach a wider audience through clear and concise highlights of selected… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces major OA agreement with Max Planck Society - April 9, 2019
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major Open Access agreement with Germany’s Max Planck Society (MPG). This builds on the ‘read and publish’ agreement coordinated by the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB) with financial support from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).… Read More
Gigantum and Ripeta join Digital Science family to help increase reproducibility in research - April 9, 2019
Research technology company Digital Science has announced that the two US-based startups, Ripeta, an automated reproducibility assessment tool, and Gigantum, a data science platform, has joined the Digital Science family of companies. Both companies are playing a key role in making scientific research reproducible and… Read More
Wiley collaborates with Google Cloud to support learners for Google’s Cloud certifications - April 8, 2019
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at providing a range of resources to support learners in the fast-growing market for Google’s Cloud certifications. The first title to be published as part of these resources… Read More