eLife collaborates with Flockademic and the Center for Open Science to support the development of Plaudit - November 1, 2018
eLife, in collaboration with Flockademic and the Center for Open Science (COS), is supporting the development of Plaudit - a mechanism for academics to share their research recommendations openly with readers. Stemming from a concept refined at the eLife Innovation Sprint 2018 by a team… Read More
PLOS and GARDP collaborate to launch new channel for the antimicrobial resistance community - May 24, 2018
PLOS, in collaboration with the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), announced the launch of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Channel during the World Health Assembly, Geneva. This new channel offers the AMR research community access to the latest research, as well as commentaries, blogs, news… Read More
Royal Society Publishing partners with The Charlesworth Group for social media management in China - May 15, 2018
The Charlesworth Group has announced a new partnership with the Royal Society Publishing to oversee its WeChat social media activities in Mainland China. Under this arrangement, The Charlesworth Group will register and manage the Royal Society Publishing WeChat account and translate and post content to support… Read More
Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme and ResearchGate announce new cooperation agreement for sharing of academic journal articles legally - April 20, 2018
Three publishers - Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme - and ResearchGate have announced a new cooperation agreement to work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform in a way… Read More
National Academy of Medicine launches online resource hubs on clinician burnout and well-being - March 23, 2018
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has launched the Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub, a comprehensive online repository for health system leaders, clinicians, and trainees that contains resources highlighting promising approaches for combating clinician burnout, such as research and news articles, toolkits, peer-reviewed literature, and reports. … Read More
Earth and Space Science Open Archive beta preprint server now open for submissions - February 9, 2018
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Atypon has announced that the Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), a community server for the open dissemination of Earth and space science early research outputs is now live and available in a fully functioning… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing invites scholarly communication professionals to join its Industry Announcements and Events online discussion group - January 5, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is inviting scholarly communication professionals to join its Industry Announcements and Events online discussion group. The discussion group replaces the SSP-L list-serv and is part of SSP's new C3 community platform. Announcements of conferences, events, or other resources of broad… Read More
Wiley and Proforums partner to create an online community for CPA candidates - December 21, 2017
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global research and learning company, and Proforums, a provider of online communities for professional exams, have announced a partnership to launch CPAforum as a free resource to help CPA candidates pass the CPA Exam. The partnership makes Wiley the founding… Read More
Bowker to supply data for Book+Main - December 15, 2017
Book+Main, a social media company that enables readers to engage with their favourite authors and discover new ones, has announced a partnership with Bowker to connect them with metadata to enhance their business. Bowker is a ProQuest affiliate and acts as the retail agent for ProQuest's… Read More
New engineering network, EngRN, launches on SSRN platform - December 14, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that SSRN, its preprint server and early stage research platform, is launching a dedicated engineering network, EngRN. EngRN supports early stage research sharing in all areas of engineering, including aerospace, bioengineering, chemical, civil, electrical,… Read More
