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
Virginia Tech Publishing launches first peer-reviewed book under its own imprint - June 10, 2019
Virginia Tech Publishing, Virginia Tech’s scholarly publishing hub housed in the University Libraries, recently launched “Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History,” the first peer-reviewed book to be released solely under the Virginia Tech Publishing imprint. Edited by E. Thomas Ewing, a professor of… Read More
CSHL, Yale University, and BMJ set to launch new preprint server for the health sciences - June 6, 2019
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Yale University, and BMJ have announced the forthcoming launch of medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive"), a free online archive and distribution service for preprints in the medical and health sciences. medRxiv is expected to begin accepting manuscripts on June… Read More
NISO launches new project to develop best practices for ensuring findability of video and audio outputs from scholars - June 3, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a new project, Assess Video and Audio Metadata and Standards for Academic Research and Professional Information, to determine best practices and recommendations for metadata associated with scholarly output and instructional materials in video and audio formats.… Read More
Reprints Desk enters partnership agreement with Lean Library - May 31, 2019
Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organisations, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk have announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Lean Library, a SAGE Publishing Company. Reprints Desk’s Article Galaxy research… Read More
Research Square launches new pre-publication platform - May 29, 2019
Research Square recently launched a unique new pre-publication platform, also called Research Square. Following the success of the In Review service, which launched in October 2018, in partnership with Springer Nature, researchers can now post their manuscript directly to the platform as… Read More
Newcastle University announces launch of institutional research data repository powered by Figshare - May 28, 2019
Newcastle University has announced the launch of their institutional data repository, data.ncl.ac.uk, to make research data from the university searchable, discoverable, and citable. Research data uploaded to the repository will be marked for indexing in Google Scholar and Google Dataset Search… Read More
Inera Inc. launches eXtyles Arc to offer hands-free intelligent document structuring and XML conversion - May 28, 2019
Inera Inc., a provider of editorial and XML software for scholarly and technical publishers, has announced the launch of eXtyles Arc, designed to offer hands-free document structuring and XML conversion from raw Microsoft Word manuscripts. Designed for a range of implementations including integration with journal… Read More
