Authorea acquires research publisher The Winnower - November 11, 2016
Authorea, the online collaborative platform for researchers, has acquired The Winnower, a pioneering research publisher that offers advanced publishing tools to individual authors. With the acquisition, Authorea seeks to enhance the foremost online platform for researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data,… Read More
IDPF members approve plan to combine with W3C - November 8, 2016
The member organisations of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have approved, by a margin of 72 (88%) in favour to 10 (12%) opposed, a plan proposed by the IDPF Board of Directors to combine IDPF with the World Wide Web Consortium… Read More
Ringgold and PSI partner to harness the power of linked data - November 7, 2016
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, and Publisher Solutions International, Ltd. (PSI) have signed an agreement that will enable both companies to provide services based on the power of combining Ringgold's Identify Database and PSI's IP Registry. The process is underway to map Identify and the… Read More
Jisc Collections and Elsevier sign agreement securing access to research publications and initiating open science collaboration - November 7, 2016
Jisc Collections and STM publisher Elsevier have signed a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality research at costs lower than the industry average. In addition, Jisc Collections and Elsevier have agreed to cooperate on several Open Science opportunities, leveraging Elsevier's… Read More
ScienceOpen announces new partnership with Cold Spring Harbor Press - November 7, 2016
Research network ScienceOpen has announced a new publishing partnership with Cold Spring Harbor. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, located on Long Island, New York, USA. Since 1933, it has helped to… Read More
Credo, Arkansas State University partner to improve college readiness, student success - November 4, 2016
Credo – the industry leader for information literacy, critical thinking, and research solutions – and Arkansas State University are embarking on a partnership to bring information literacy resources and instruction to regional Arkansas high school students in support of their college readiness. The Literati High… Read More
Bibliometric leaders unveil new methods to understand biomedical science - November 4, 2016
ÜberResearch, a data and analytics solutions and services company serving scientific funders and research organisations, has announced a set of innovative methods from a collaboration undertaken with a group of international bibliometric experts which represent a progression for the field of bibliometrics as it relates to… Read More
Two Taylor & Francis ebook platforms now available to order through ProQuest OASIS - November 2, 2016
ProQuest has announced a partnership with publisher group Taylor & Francis to provide libraries with more choices for purchasing ebooks though OASIS. The OASIS system provides end-to-end acquisition workflow support to the market's largest selection of ebooks (more than 1.7 million… Read More
Sheridan to provide printing services for SSP’s membership and informational resources - November 2, 2016
Sheridan, a provider of print, publishing services and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and cataloguers, will provide printing services for the Society for Scholarly Publishing's (SSP) membership and informational resources. Sheridan responded to SSP's Request for Proposal for in-kind printing… Read More
Amsterdam Data Science and Elsevier in deal to advance data science research and education in Amsterdam - November 1, 2016
Scientific information solutions provider Elsevier has announced that network organisation Amsterdam Data Science (ADS) has signed an agreement aimed at advancing data science research and education in Amsterdam. Both parties are embarking on a number of joint projects that will enable data… Read More
