Springer Nature deposits over 600,000 chemical compounds on PubChem - October 31, 2017
Springer Nature has deposited more than six hundred thousand chemical compounds on PubChem, all of them offering more than 26 million links back into the primary literature, eBooks or Major Reference Works located on SpringerLink, BMC or nature.com. Of these, 1.6 million links point to open… Read More
Project DEAL and Springer Nature in negotiations for a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature - October 13, 2017
Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany and publisher Springer Nature are negotiating a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature. After the latest meeting, the spokesman for the DEAL Project Steering Committee and President of the University Rectors Conference, Prof. Dr.… Read More
BMJ’s Research to Publication set to strengthen brain trauma research - September 27, 2017
BMJ's e-learning programme Research to Publication is being made available to doctors training in neurotrauma to help strengthen and build research capacity in this important field. The trainees are based at 13 institutions in the UK and in low and middle income countries, including Colombia,… Read More
ISNI Organizations Registry announces infrastructure changes, specialized system will identify organisations in scholarly communications - August 29, 2017
The ISNI International Agency Ltd has announced changes to its infrastructure focused on providing open identifiers for organisations working in the field of scholarly communications. The ISNI Organizations Registry will enable organisations to change and correct their own records and allow the research community to identify… Read More
BMC Medicine becomes the first clinical research journal to accept Registered Reports - August 24, 2017
BMC Medicine, an open access journal, has become the first clinical research journal to accept Registered Reports, enabling researchers to take a proactive approach towards improving transparency and reproducibility in science. The Registered Reports format is supported by the Center for Open Science (COS) and aims… Read More
German universities reject latest Elsevier offer for a new country-wide licensing agreement for its research portfolio - August 7, 2017
A consortium of German universities, research institutes and public libraries has reportedly rejected the latest offer from Dutch publishing giant Elsevier for a new country-wide licensing agreement for its research portfolio. Germany's chief negotiator says the offer does not meet the requirements… Read More
BMJ updates Ebola resources to support healthcare workers in Central and West Africa - June 22, 2017
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has updated Ebola resources to support healthcare workers in Central and West Africa. Following the recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, BMJ has updated its range of free online resources to support healthcare… Read More
ASTM International Spectroscopy Group seeks participation for updating informatics standard for labs - June 19, 2017
Anyone is invited to join efforts to update ASTM International's well-known standard that helps labs optimise operations through IT applications. The committee on molecular spectroscopy and separation science (E13) is seeking participation from a wide segment of users, vendors, and other stakeholders to update the standard,… Read More
International Accord strengthens ties between repository networks worldwide - May 11, 2017
Several regional and national repository networks and stakeholder groups have formally endorsed an international accord that will lead to the greater alignment of repository networks around the world. The aim of the accord is to improve cooperation between national and regional repository networks by identifying common principles and areas of… Read More
BMC Biology becomes the first specialist biology journal to offer Registered Reports - May 4, 2017
BMC Biology has become the first dedicated biology journal to accept Registered Reports. This innovative approach to publishing allows authors to submit their rationale and methods for peer-review before any experiments are conducted. Articles that pass peer-review will be accepted in principle meaning that, as long… Read More
