Elsevier collaborates with University College London to predict functionality of novel proteins to aid the discovery of new drug targets - October 23, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it is collaborating with University College London (UCL) to analyze the applicability, scope and scientific viability, and value of protein function predictions. UCL will use Pathway Studio, part of Elsevier's R&D Solutions for Pharma & Life Sciences, to analyse and… Read More
Innovative open access agreement between Springer and Jisc to benefit UK researchers - October 23, 2015
Researchers in the UK will now be able to publish their articles open access in over 1,600 Springer hybrid journals without cost barriers or administrative barriers. The Springer Compact agreement is a pilot that combines open access publishing and subscription access in one annual fee and… Read More
NWO and Brill join forces in research on handwriting and image recognition - October 23, 2015
A consortium of computer scientists, historians of science and heritage professionals has been awarded funding by NWO for a research project on making illustrated handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives was submitted jointly by the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS), Naturalis Biodiversity… Read More
EBSCO partners with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks - October 22, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has partnered with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague, a Czech university publisher, to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks™. The first of a few collections to be made available in EBSCO eBooks is from the Varia edition series… Read More
Arizona State University selects ProQuest SIPX to reduce students’ course materials costs and enhance the educational experience - October 22, 2015
ProQuest SIPX, provider of the most complete digital course materials solutions in higher education, has signed a three-year deal with Arizona State University (ASU), the largest public university in the U.S. with over 90,000 students. ASU will integrate the SIPX Central service—a scalable, self-service configuration that… Read More
SAGE partners with the International and American Associations for Dental Research to launch JDR Clinical & Translational Research - October 21, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of JDR Clinical & Translational Research in partnership with the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR). Publishing dental, oral, and craniofacial research at the interface of discovery science and clinical application, this new publication is a resource… Read More
ACI Scholarly Blog Index added to ProQuest’s Summon Discovery Service - October 21, 2015
ACI Information Group’s research database, the ACI Scholarly Blog Index, has been added to ProQuest’s Summon discovery service. Subscribers to ProQuest’s Summon can now access scholarly blog content by adding the ACI Scholarly Blog Index to their current accounts. With the integration, researchers can quickly access… Read More
Elsevier and The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses announce publishing partnership - October 20, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) have announced that Elsevier will publish AWHONN's official publications, Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN) and Nursing for Women's Health (NWH), beginning with the 2016 volumes. Journal of Obstetric,… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan titles join SpringerLink and the Springer Book Archives - October 19, 2015
Palgrave Macmillan and Springer have decided to align their eBook collections, collating all Palgrave Connect eBooks on SpringerLink and adding thousands more to the Springer Book Archives, as a result of the recent combination of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science+Business… Read More
RedLink announces turnkey integration with PubFactory - October 19, 2015
RedLink has announced a turnkey integration with PubFactory, the award-winning scholarly publishing platform from Safari. This new association will enable publishers hosted on the PubFactory platform to easily integrate with RedLink's Business Intelligence (BI) solution and to leverage its complete range of sales insights. RedLink,… Read More
