NISO announces draft recommended practice for Reproducibility Badging and Definitions - May 6, 2020
The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) is accepting comments, through June 18, 2020, from the information community on the draft recommended practice, Reproducibility Badging and Definitions. Following on the landmark U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Read More
EDP Sciences journals now on Researcher making discoverability of content easier - May 6, 2020
EDP Sciences has announced its publication of nearly fifty journals on the Researcher platform. These journals join the existing collection of over 16,000 journals from a number of publishers. The EDP Sciences journals included on the platform include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Parasite, and ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling… Read More
Androgens: Clinical Research and Therapeutics, new OA peer-reviewed journal scheduled for launch in 2020 - May 5, 2020
Androgens: Clinical Research and Therapeutics, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to testosterone and other androgens, is now accepting submissions for publication in 2020. The journal aims to publish the highest-quality peer-reviewed articles from all disciplines of medicine, bringing together the numerous areas of testosterone and other androgens clinical… Read More
Kudos offers free use of Kudos Pro to help researchers keep communicating during pandemic disruption - May 1, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, has announced that it is opening up its leading research communications platform – Kudos Pro – to the global academic community, with complimentary access for 60 days. Over 1,000 researchers around the world have already signed up for… Read More
Elsevier offers free access to its unique set of biomedical research tools and content for researchers working on coronavirus - April 29, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, is offering free access to a unique set of biomedical research tools and content to help researchers and life science companies accelerate efforts to address the current pandemic. The new Read More
RIT Archives launches ‘Pandemic Journals’ - April 28, 2020
Rochester Institute of Technology has announced that the RIT Archives is documenting the COVID-19 moment and its impact on the RIT community by collecting personal reflections of the pandemic. The ‘RIT Pandemic Journals’ is meant to be a repository for RIT students, faculty, staff and… Read More
2020 Doody’s Core Titles information now available from Rittenhouse - April 27, 2020
The 2020 Edition of Doody’s Core Titles® (DCT) has been released, and Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. has announced that this essential resource is now integrated across Rittenhouse.com and R2Library.com. The DCT health sciences list and collection development tools… Read More
NISO launches work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy as an ANSI/NISO standard - April 24, 2020
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal launch of its work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) as an ANSI/NISO standard. The move follows the organisations December 2019 announcement. NISO Voting Members expressed strong support for this work, which has… Read More
ReadCube launches free research pass programme to provide direct access for COVID-19 researchers - April 24, 2020
Digital Science’s ReadCube, in collaboration with leading publishers, is announcing the launch of a new initiative to facilitate access to literature related to COVID-19 research. The COVID-19 Research Pass (CRP) programme provides direct access to over 26 million articles and is available… Read More
Three new journals to join Springer Nature’s portfolio from January 2021 - April 22, 2020
Three new journals will be launched under the Nature Research imprint at the beginning of 2021. The motivation for launching these journals, as well as their focus and structure, reflects the specific needs of research communities. The journals aim to foster cross disciplinary research and provide… Read More
