Reed Business Information acquires Adaptris Group Limited - October 28, 2015
Reed Business Information (RBI), part of RELX Group's Risk & Business Information division, has acquired the entire issued share capital of software business Adaptris Group Limited. Adaptris Group Limited is a fast-growing supply chain integration and e-solutions company. It has a focus on the agriculture… Read More
Emerald leads the way to become first scholarly publisher to sign up to innovative new pilot service from Kudos and Research Media - October 28, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has become the first scholarly publisher to sign up to an innovative new pilot service from Kudos and Research Media that will help the research community extend the visibility and impact of published articles. The new pilot service will see… Read More
ORCID collaborates with Crossref and DataCite to launch Auto-Update functionality - October 27, 2015
ORCID, the non-profit organisation that is working to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by providing a registry of persistent identifiers for researchers, has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite. ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID… Read More
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
