Microbiology Society launches new Figshare Viewer for supplementary data - December 16, 2019
The Microbiology Society has launched a new Figshare Viewer for supplementary data to allow for users to access research data directly within the manuscript. This launch is an addition to their existing Figshare Portal of supplementary material from Microbial Genomics, available at… Read More
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre announces 2020.0 CSD release - December 13, 2019
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), world leading providers of structural chemistry data for material and life sciences, has announced the 2020.0 CSD Release, offering improved visualisation and extraction of data driven insights from now over one million structures in the Cambridge Structural Database. After celebrating… Read More
CCC unveils new content integration solution – RightFind Navigate - December 13, 2019
The Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced the launch of RightFind® Navigate for researchers to find relevant content more quickly and easily through contextualised discovery, machine learning, and smart data. Designed to streamline access… Read More
Elsevier expands CRediT approach to describing authorship to 1,200 journals - December 11, 2019
Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, has expanded the ‘Contributor Roles Taxonomy’ (CRediT) approach to describing authorship to 1,200 journals - with plans to expand to hundreds more journals throughout 2020. In a landscape of increasingly collaborative research and multi-authorship, standard… Read More
American Chemical Society set to expand its environmental science portfolio with the launch of two new journals in 2020 - December 11, 2019
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the launch of two new journals in 2020: ACS ES&T Water and ACS ES&T Engineering. These titles will join the prestigious Environmental Science & Technology family of environmental journals published by the Society. The launch… Read More
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 Authors can submit preprints or unpublished manuscripts to Review Commons for… Read More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
