The Pistoia Alliance to develop a toolkit to support implementation of the FAIR Guiding Principles - July 17, 2019
The Pistoia Alliance, a global non-profit that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has announced the launch of its FAIR Implementation project, backed by pharmaceutical companies including Roche, Astra Zeneca, and Bayer. The first project milestone by the end of 2019 will… Read More
Pensoft welcomes Neotropical Biology & Conservation to its open-access journal portfolio - July 10, 2019
Open-access, peer-reviewed journal Neotropical Biology & Conservation has announced its move to the journal family of scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft. Neotropical Biology & Conservation welcomes research and review articles, short communications and commentaries on the biology and behaviour of organisms from the tropical… Read More
Elsevier to expand its R&D start-up innovation program ‘The Hive’ to include engineering-intensive start-ups - July 9, 2019
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that it is expanding its R&D start-up innovation program called The Hive to include engineering-intensive start-ups. Participants in The Hive will be provided complimentary access to Elsevier’s suite of engineering solutions to help… Read More
Emerald’s new Insight platform goes live - July 8, 2019
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced that its new Insight digital research platform has gone live, following a significant investment in technology and many months of development in partnership with software development consultancy 67 Bricks. Emerald Insight – the home of… Read More
NISO publishes Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally-Provided Information Resources - July 3, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally-Provided Information Resources. This NISO Recommended Practice provides recommendations for using federated identity as an access model and improving the federated authentication user experience, arising from the Resource Access for… Read More
ALCTS Publishing releases first guide in new monographs series - July 3, 2019
ALCTS Publishing has announced the release of the first title in its new Sudden Position Guide series. Edited by Jeremy Myntti, the Sudden Position Guide to Cataloging and Metadata is geared toward librarians who have been given cataloging and metadata responsibilities without formal training, those who… Read More
NISO publishes final recommended practices for KBART Automation - June 24, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal publication of recommended practices for KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings (NISO RP-26-2019). This Recommended Practice supports the timely exchange of accurate, library-specific KBART-formatted holdings reports between content providers’ access control systems and knowledge… Read More
The BMJ launches special collection on China’s health reforms - June 24, 2019
The BMJ has launched a special collection of articles that analyse the achievements and challenges of China’s health system reforms that started in 2009. The collection was launched at a special event in Beijing on June 22, 2019. The articles, written by leading Chinese experts,… Read More
EMBO Press relaunches redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum - June 21, 2019
EMBO Press has relaunched a completely redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum, the scholarly publishing industry’s most widely used online publishing platform. The move to Literatum brings EMBO Press journals together on a single platform for the first time. The journals will… Read More
Springer Nature launches new collection of educational, standalone, peer-reviewed videos on SpringerLink - June 20, 2019
Springer Nature is launching a new collection of educational, standalone, peer-reviewed videos on its online content platform SpringerLink. Available from July, the videos will cover a wide range of content from demonstrations of surgical techniques to tailored lecture series and interviews with researchers. Content for the… Read More
