ASAPbio and EMBO Press launch Review Commons, a pre-journal portable review platform - December 10, 2019
The ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts from the life sciences before submission to a journal. Authors can submit preprints or unpublished manuscripts to Review Commons for… Read More
Launch of new Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare Field - December 9, 2019
A new Cochrane entity, which will focus on tackling medical excess, was launched at the annual Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference in Sydney. Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare will advocate and promote the use of evidence to ensure a more sustainable approach to healthcare. The new Cochrane Field aims to… Read More
Kudos Pro to support early career researchers - November 19, 2019
Kudos Pro, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, will be trialled for a year at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) to support early career researchers. The newly launched targeted communications platform will support research grant holders, project teams, departments and… Read More
Integration of Airbus’ Vision-1 satellite imagery and the GeoSeer search tool give academics access to millions of open data maps - November 18, 2019
Jisc has announced the launch of the improved Jisc geospatial data service providing universities and colleges easy and free access to more than 1.6 million geographical datasets from around the world, including the most comprehensive index of maps ever brought together. The service features the implementation… Read More
ProQuest announces new look and new features for SIRS Issues Researcher and SIRS Discoverer - November 13, 2019
ProQuest has announced that its popular SIRS Issues Researcher and SIRS Discoverer products have been enhanced with a new look and new features to engage students and help them achieve better outcomes with guidance from customers and users. SIRS products – staples for research, teaching and… Read More
Healio launches new online education platform, Healio CME - November 12, 2019
Multichannel information platform Healio has announced the launch of its all new online education platform, Healio CME. The launch is the most significant for the company since the original release of Healio.com in 2012. Through months of research and usability testing, Healio has developed a platform… Read More
Automated Crossref DOI registration for journals using Scholastica for open access publishing - November 8, 2019
Scholastica, a peer review and publishing platform for academic journals, has announced that journals using Scholastica for open access publishing can now set up automated DOI registration and metadata deposits via Crossref. With the new automation, publishers can eliminate all manual and technical work around content… Read More
NIH releases Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental draft guidance for public comment - November 7, 2019
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental draft guidance for public comment. The purpose of this draft policy and supplemental draft guidance is to promote effective and efficient data management… Read More
EBSCO Information Services releases PsycTHERAPY, an online streaming video database to support clinical and counselling psychology education - November 6, 2019
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has introduced PsycTHERAPY®, a unique streaming video database of therapy demonstrations to support clinical and counselling psychology education. Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), the PsycTHERAPY library offers more than 500 therapy demonstrations using the latest psychotherapy techniques. PsycTHERAPY provides clinicians,… Read More
MUSE announces 2020 books collections, new publishers - November 4, 2019
Pricing and other details are now available for all of Project MUSE’s 2020 book collections. By the end of the 2020 calendar year, MUSE will host over 63,000 titles from more than 120 distinguished not-for-profit publishers from around the world. The 2020 Complete collection will offer… Read More
