Wolters Kluwer to collaborate with Healthcare Services Platform Consortium to advance HIT interoperability roadmap and improve patient care - December 5, 2018
Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced that it will collaborate with the Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) to accelerate the non-profit's mission of solving the interoperability challenge in healthcare. A focal point of current industry initiatives, the advancement of IT standards and interoperable frameworks holds the keys… Read More
SAGE signs ORCID open letter to support better recognition for researchers - December 4, 2018
As part of SAGE Publishing's commitment to ethical, transparent and fair peer review SAGE has signed the ORCID open letter along with other stakeholders. Committing to mandating ORCID in accordance with the best practice for publishers, this step ensures better recognition and… Read More
Max Planck Digital Library and F1000 in deal to cover cost for MPDL affiliated authors to publish in F1000Research - December 4, 2018
An agreement between F1000 and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) will cover the cost for Max Planck Society-affiliated authors to publish on F1000Research, making it free for the authors. The F1000Research publishing model has been designed to remove unnecessary barriers… Read More
Silverchair partners with ReadSpeaker to deliver text-to-speech functionality - November 30, 2018
Silverchair has announced a partnership with ReadSpeaker to offer text-to-speech capabilities through the Silverchair Universe, a framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the Silverchair Platform. ReadSpeaker offers dynamic solutions in online and offline text-to-speech, providing high-quality, lifelike voices. ReadSpeaker serves and supports… Read More
The American University of Beirut joins ProQuest Dissertations and Theses publishing program - November 28, 2018
The American University of Beirut, an esteemed teaching-centered research university in Lebanon and the Middle East, has signed an agreement to contribute its graduate works to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses™ (PQDT) database, the leading database of dissertations and theses from the world's greatest universities. It… Read More
HighWire partners with Code Ocean to boost transparency, reproducibility, and reuse of research - November 28, 2018
Scholarly publishing tech provider, HighWire, has partnered with computational reproducibility platform, Code Ocean, to enable authors of academic articles to easily publish and share code associated with their research. Available to all HighWire customers, the cloud-based platform further allows readers to view and run code from… Read More
Jisc and Elsevier in deal to support UK institutions with REF compliance and identify article metadata more effectively - November 27, 2018
Jisc, a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing UK universities and colleges shared digital infrastructure and services, and Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, have signed an agreement setting out how they will work together to support institutions to… Read More
Altmetric integrates its data into Meta - November 27, 2018
Data science company and alternative metrics provider Altmetric has announced the integration of its data into Meta, allowing users of the platform to gain quick insights into how the community is sharing and discussing published research. Meta, a free service from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,… Read More
ROMSOC and PaperHive team up to boost visibility of new publications - November 27, 2018
The European research project ROMSOC has partnered with PaperHive, a copyright-compliant scholarly collaboration network, to facilitate research collaboration and boost the visibility of research results. All articles emerging from the project will be available for discussion within PaperHive. ROMSOC is a European Industrial Doctorate project… Read More
Springer partners with Labster to bring students in Germany cutting-edge science education materials - November 26, 2018
Springer, a global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, has announced a partnership with Labster, connecting traditional textbook material with computer-animated simulations. This collaboration will help to shape the future of science education by changing the way students learn science. The enhanced textbook material is available via… Read More
