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More institutions join F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway, open research is expanding significantly across Japan -

The Tokai University, Tsukuba University of Technology and Utsunomiya University have signed up as affiliates of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba. These agreements enable researchers from these affiliated institutions to… Read More

Akkon Hochschule in Berlin selects OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services -

The Akkon Hochschule für Humanwissenschaften, in Berlin, has selected OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its new, cloud-based library services platform to improve workflows, support research, and share resources worldwide through WorldCat. The publicly accredited Akkon Hochschule is Germany's first Hochschule (an institution… Read More

Scite partners with Colabra to enhance the citation experience on the Colabra platform -

scite, an award-winning tool that helps researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has partnered with Colabra, provider of a modern GxP-compliant Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and project management tool, to enhance the citation experience on the Colabra platform. … Read More

Open Book Publishers joins the Open Book Collective -

Open Book Publishers (OBP) has joined the Open Book Collective (OBC). The Open Book Collective brings together OA publishers, OA publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive ecosystem for the thriving of OA book publishing. At… Read More

PLOS opts for CCC Ringgold Identify Database as its PID solution -

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced that The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has adopted the Ringgold Identify Database as its Persistent Identifier (PID) solution to streamline organizational data, helping power its Open Access (OA) publishing process… Read More

EBSCO Information Services officially joins Project ReShare to provide financial contributions and expertise to the ReShare Community -

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has officially joined Project ReShare to provide financial contributions and expertise to the ReShare Community. The ReShare Community is drawn from libraries, consortia, information organizations, and developers. The ReShare Project is building a user-centered, app-based, community-owned resource-sharing… Read More

Figshare partners with African Library and Information Associations and Institutions to promote open data awareness -

Figshare – a world leader in digital infrastructure that supports open research, and part of Digital Science – has formed a new partnership with the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), which is committed to open data and information sharing across Africa.… Read More

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics selects DataSalon for easy access to business intelligence -

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has announced the adoption of DataSalon’s MasterVision platform in order to better understand their customer data and revenue streams and how they fit together and impact each other. MasterVision joins up all of SIAM’s different datasets to… Read More

Facilitated preprint posting is now available for Lab Protocols at PLOS ONE -

PLOS, a nonprofit, Open Access publisher, is expanding its partnership with the preprint server bioRxiv to include Lab Protocols. When authors submit a Lab Protocol to PLOS ONE, they prepare a short manuscript that contextualizes their step-by-step protocol, describing the… Read More

JAMA Health Forum and AcademyHealth announce partnership -

The JAMA Health Forum has announced its partnership with AcademyHealth, an agreement that will strengthen the journal’s connections to AcademyHealth’s premier membership of health services researchers, policymakers, and health care practitioners and stakeholders. Under the partnership, AcademyHealth recognizes JAMA Health Forum as an… Read More


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