Erasmus University Rotterdam and Digital Science announce new agreement to roll out Dimensions and Altmetric Explorer for Institutions across the institution - April 5, 2018
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and Digital Science have announced a new agreement that will see Dimensions and Altmetric Explorer for Institutions rolled out across the institution. Dimensions is a research information platform that enables users to search and analyze over 128 million research documents. In addition… Read More
California selects ProQuest for K12 - April 5, 2018
ProQuest has announced that its guided research and learning resources, reference solutions and ebooks will be available this fall to California's 6.2 million school children in the state's 10,000 K12 schools. ProQuest is one of three companies selected as part of California's new state-wide digital… Read More
River Valley announces two-way integration of its submission system – ReView, with bioRxiv preprint server - April 5, 2018
Authors of biology and biomedical papers can now choose to submit to a journal directly from bioRxiv, as well as submit to bioRxiv automatically from a journal. The move is the result of a 'two-way' integration of River Valley's ReView platform with… Read More
Canadian Association of Research Libraries signs San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - April 5, 2018
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has signed on to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which recommends changes in practices by the research community regarding the use of research metrics. Research metrics (or bibliometrics) are a variety of techniques that provide… Read More
California Digital Library joins Royal Society Open Access Membership - April 4, 2018
The California Digital Library (CDL) recently signed on to the Royal Society Open Access Membership, an arrangement under which UC-affiliated authors (from any UC campus, UC Office of the President, or Lawrence Berkeley Lab) are entitled to a 25% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APCs)… Read More
RedShelf and McGraw-Hill Education announce new access agreement - April 4, 2018
Digital learning materials provider RedShelf and McGraw-Hill Education, a top learning science company, has announced a new agreement that will help expand their work together on inclusive access programs that increase the affordability of course materials and enhance student engagement. Inclusive access programs allow students to… Read More
Higher education publishers join Ohio textbook affordability initiative - April 2, 2018
AAP members Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Wiley recently partnered with the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) and the Ohio Department of Higher Education on state-wide Inclusive Access textbook affordability initiative. Ninety non-profit institutions of higher education in Ohio are members of OhioLINK. The initiative could… Read More
The Physical Society of Japan and AIP Publishing announce new sales and marketing partnership - March 30, 2018
AIP Publishing, a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and The Physical Society of Japan (JPS) have announced a new marketing and sales partnership for the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (JPSJ). To grow its global footprint and… Read More
Dr Julie Bayley and Emerald partnership to help strengthen ‘impact literacy’ in the academic community - March 30, 2018
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced a new partnership with Dr Julie Bayley - incoming Director of Research Impact Development (University of Lincoln), champion of the ARMA Impact Special Interest Group and one of the most influential voices in research impact. Alongside national assessment exercises… Read More
Northern Light extends content partnership strategy through alliance with ProQuest - March 29, 2018
Northern Light®, a provider of machine learning-powered knowledge management platforms for market research and competitive intelligence, has extended its content partnership strategy through an alliance with ProQuest, which recently added Northern Light Life Sciences Conference Abstracts to the content available in its ProQuest Dialog™ information service.… Read More
