Gale enhances user experience across product portfolio to deliver better research insights and outcomes - June 20, 2019
Gale, a Cengage company, is making enhancements across its portfolio of products, improving the functionality and user experience of its research tools to make its content more discoverable. Now libraries and researchers have superior access to high-quality authoritative content online and in the classroom, delivering better… Read More
Elsevier unveils the International Center for the Study of Research - June 19, 2019
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has launched a groundbreaking new Center tasked with examining and advancing the evaluation of research across all fields of knowledge production. The International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) will work closely with the… Read More
Elsevier launches Current Research journals, new titles will meet growing demand for gold open access - June 18, 2019
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, continues to expand its offering of gold open access titles with the launch of Current Research, a series of primary research titles spanning the life and physical sciences. Current Research will serve as a companion to… Read More
SAGE unveils new Terminology Service with the Social Science Thesaurus - June 18, 2019
Housing over 61,000 concepts, SAGE Publishing’s new Terminology Service is a valuable tool to aid researchers in understanding and exploring key concepts. It launches with the SAGE Social Science Thesaurus, a multidisciplinary vocabulary of the most important concepts in the social… Read More
ProQuest launches virtual reality and 360-degree viewing functionality for select videos - June 18, 2019
ProQuest has announced the launch of virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree viewing functionality for select videos on the ProQuest search platform, as well as in ProQuest One™ Academic and on the newly redesigned Alexander Street video interface. ProQuest is the first academic streaming video platform to… Read More
Voting Members of NISO approve new standardisation project, Criteria for Indexes - June 17, 2019
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new standardisation project, Criteria for Indexes. This work, intended to become an ANSI standard to replace the Z39.4 standard that was withdrawn in 1997, will provide a modern approach to guidelines for the content,… Read More
The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate’s new supplement ‘Agora’ to publish non-traditional scientific output in the field of space weather and space climate - June 17, 2019
The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC), published by EDP Sciences, has announced the launch of a new supplement titled “Agora”. The Agora, a term which denoted in ancient Greek an assembly place for various aspects of public life including intellectual exchange and debate,… Read More
Frankfurter Buchmesse launches Frankfurt Audio - June 13, 2019
The world of audiobooks, podcasts and smart speakers will be represented at this year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse (October 16-20, 2019) with its own, newly created thematic area and programme: Frankfurt Audio. Frankfurt Audio comprises a new exhibition space located in Hall 3.1, which will include a new… Read More
EBSCO Information Services releases EBSCO Faculty SelectTM to support textbook affordability and student success - June 13, 2019
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the release of EBSCO Faculty SelectTM (Faculty Select), a single interface for library staff and institutional faculty. Faculty Select makes it easy for faculty to explore Open Educational Resources (OER) and purchasable DRM-free e-books to support their courses. The interface… Read More
Hindawi updates Editorial structure to further support Open Science and the academic research community - June 12, 2019
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced updates to its journals’ Editorial models to more fully serve their communities and the researchers that publish within them in the era of Open Access, Open Data, Open Infrastructure and Open Science. The open access publisher will be appointing Chief… Read More
