Sixteenth profile in ARL series: University of Oklahoma Libraries support digital scholarship - June 9, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the sixteenth profile in a series highlighting digital scholarship support at ARL member libraries. The latest installment in this series features the work of the University of Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma profile, written by ARL visiting… Read More
EPLF is latest European institution to adopt Altmetrics to complement existing bibliometric analysis - June 6, 2017
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has announced that École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has become the latest institution to adopt the Explorer for Institutions platform to help analyse the online engagement surrounding its scholarly research outputs. With an intuitive interface which enables users to browse,… Read More
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral and Wiley announce publishing partnership - June 2, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has been selected by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) as its publishing partner for its distinguished publications, The Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and Nutrition in Clinical Practice. This agreement, commencing in January 2018, will… Read More
Clarivate Analytics acquires Publons - June 2, 2017
Clarivate Analytics has announced the acquisition of Publons and its leading global platform for researchers to share, discuss and receive recognition for peer review and editing of academic research. The acquisition brings together the world's preeminent citation database and the world's largest researcher-facing peer-review data and… Read More
Leading Italian universities now gain access to De Gruyter content - June 2, 2017
Academic publisher De Gruyter has signed a 3-year agreement with the CRUI/CARE consortium of Italian academic libraries that includes eJournal and eBook packages as well as Databases. Currently, some of the most prestigious Italian universities have joined the consortium for De Gruyter collections, including Università… Read More
Springer Nature and the ISSN International Centre initiate centralisation of ISSN assignment - June 1, 2017
Springer Nature and the ISSN International Centre have been initiating a centralised process for the assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to serial publications of Springer Nature. The new process for requesting ISSN standardises and automates the way unique identifiers are… Read More
Internet Archive collaborates with MIT Press and Arcadia to digitise and provide access to MIT Press backlist titles - June 1, 2017
The MIT Press and the Internet Archive have announced a partnership, with support from Arcadia, to scan, preserve, and enable libraries to lend hundreds of MIT Press books that are currently not available digitally. This partnership represents an important advance in bringing… Read More
OpenAIRE and ICSU World Data System in deal to advance Open Science - June 1, 2017
OpenAIRE, an EU initiative to support and implement open scholarship in Europe, and the ICSU World Data System (ICSU-WDS) have signed an agreement to strengthen existing collaborations in the field of research data and to further develop joint activities to support the Open Science agenda. A… Read More
Charlesworth Author Services and AIP Publishing announce new partnership - June 1, 2017
Charlesworth Author Services, a division of The Charlesworth Group, has announced a new partnership with AIP Publishing to provide language editing and publication support services, further strengthening the leading physical science publisher's offering to authors. AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit subsidiary of… Read More
London Info International 2017 offers clients access to Outsell’s Market Intelligence Service - May 31, 2017
London Info International has announced that Outsell, Inc. has renewed its Exclusive Research Partnership. In this role Outsell will play an important part in supporting the event with high quality research, incisive analysis and insight. In an important extension of this relationship… Read More
