eLife welcomes Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation as new funder-partner - November 10, 2017
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden, has added its weight to the funder-backed effort to reform science publishing, eLife. Established 100 years ago, the Foundation has awarded 24bn Swedish Krona (nearly £224m) in research and education grants, making it one of the largest private research… Read More
CHORUS signs MoU with Elsevier to strengthen its services for institutions and funders - November 9, 2017
CHORUS, a not-for-profit organisation committed to making articles reporting on funded research easily and permanently accessible, and Elsevier, an information analytics business specialising in science and health, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding setting out how they will work together to further… Read More
Wiley and Kortext partner with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank for etextbook delivery - November 9, 2017
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global research and learning company, and Kortext, a digital textbook and personal study platform, have secured a partnership with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB). The scheme will provide digital textbooks to every Egyptian citizen and all universities, empowering their students… Read More
SAGE Publishing and Chegg announce textbook rental partnership - November 8, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing and Chegg have announced a partnership to provide students with a new affordable option for accessing SAGE texts. Through this partnership, SAGE will provide Chegg with a selection of its print textbooks for students to rent through Chegg's online connected learning platform,… Read More
DCL and ASTM International partner to make society and association content more discoverable - November 8, 2017
Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL) and ASTM International, a global standards organisation, have partnered to solve an ongoing challenge for professional societies and associations - making published content more discoverable. Discovery vendors and indexers, like Compendex/Scopus, EBSCO, and Thomson Reuters, each have… Read More
Scholarly publishers come together to launch Scientific Society Publisher Alliance - November 7, 2017
A group of prestigious not-for-profit scientific membership societies have announced the launch of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA), an initiative focused on building awareness of and support for publication of scientific research by scientist-run scientific societies. The SSPA started as a collaboration of scientific societies… Read More
IOS Press acquires StemBook - November 7, 2017
STM publisher IOS Press has acquired StemBook, an online open access review of stem cell biology that was launched by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) in collaboration with the MIND Informatics group at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2008. IOS Press will update, develop, expand and… Read More
Clarivate Analytics and Université Paris-Saclay partner to quantify global research impact - November 6, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has announced a partnership with the Université Paris-Saclay, France, to demonstrate the efficacy and global impact of its scientific research. The strategic relationship between Clarivate Analytics and Université Paris-Saclay,… Read More
Tencent Holdings and Springer Nature announce strategic partnership - November 6, 2017
Tencent Holdings Ltd, a Chinese investment holding company, has reportedly inked a strategic partnership with science publisher Springer Nature in an effort to encourage young scientists to make breakthroughs in science and technology. Under the deal, Springer Nature will unearth and encourage potential young scientists… Read More
Clarivate Analytics’ citation data now integrated into DeepDyve’s online rental service for scientific and scholarly research - November 3, 2017
DeepDyve and Clarivate Analytics have announced that Clarivate Analytics' citation data is now integrated into DeepDyve's online rental service for scientific and scholarly research. Articles from the Web of Science that appear on DeepDyve will now include a Times Cited feature… Read More
