IET’s research database, Inspec, to index content from two newly launched AIP Publishing physics journals - March 8, 2021
The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) research database, Inspec, is among the first to index content from two new AIP Publishing journals in the fields of chemical physics and biophysics. The addition of these new journals not only expands the chemical physics… Read More
Wolters Kluwer unveils suite of digital learning tools to help medical schools’ transition to blended learning - March 3, 2021
Wolters Kluwer, Health has introduced Lippincott® Clinical Context, a suite of digital learning tools intended to help medical schools as they incorporate digital and remote instruction into their curriculum. The Lippincott Clinical Context program provides access to a comprehensive set of solutions that faculty… Read More
The MIT Press launches Direct to Open, a first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for OA monographs - March 3, 2021
The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O transfers professional and scholarly books from an exclusively market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. … Read More
Portland Press unveils Portal and Viewer to support transparency and reproducibility of supporting data - March 3, 2021
Portland Press, the publishing arm of the Biochemical Society, has announced the launch of a new Portal and Viewer to support the transparency and reproducibility of supporting data published alongside articles. The Portal, available at https://portlandpress.figshare.com/, publishes supporting data under an openly available Creative… Read More
EBSCO unveils Dynamic Health™ CDS + Skills, a new training resource for nursing and allied health professionals - March 1, 2021
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the release of Dynamic Health™ CDS + Skills, a resource designed to help nurses and allied health professionals master critical skills, obtain fast, accurate answers to clinical questions and foster a culture of evidence-based practice. Dynamic Health CDS… Read More
SPARC and KEL and Knowledge Equity Lab unveil ‘Unsettling Knowledge Inequities’ podcast - February 24, 2021
SPARC has announced a partnership with the Knowledge Equity Lab to launch a new podcast called Unsettling Knowledge Inequities. The podcast will explore issues related to the politics of knowledge production, exchange, and circulation in addition to the structural, global power dynamics that shape it. The… Read More
EMS Press’ new content platform utilises the power of APIs for a modern content experience - February 22, 2021
EMS Press has announced the launch of its new content platform. The platform has been built from the ground up by the Press’s in-house team over the last year with the aim of giving readers, authors, editors and subscribers the best possible user experience. The new system… Read More
NISO calls on volunteers to join ‘Content Profile/ Linked Document’ Working Group - February 18, 2021
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project, Interchange of Academic, Research, and Professional Content, Data, and Semantics, which is intended to follow an ANSI/NISO standardization track. NISO is inviting volunteers to join the soon-to-be-formed Working Group. This Working Group… Read More
ASABE unveils Figshare-powered portal to make supplementary research data openly available, citable, and discoverable - February 17, 2021
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) have announced the launch of a platform to make supplementary research data openly available, citable, and discoverable with a Figshare-powered portal - https://asabe.figshare.com/. Supplementary research data published in the journals — Transactions of the… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe and Baden-Württemberg State Archives develop software for data transfer with German Digital Library - February 12, 2021
In Germany, archival sources are distributed across a large number of different institutions. Accessibility to these sources is often associated with considerable challenges for research as well as for interested laypeople. Small and medium-sized archives in particular, for example in cities and municipalities, often lack the necessary IT infrastructure for… Read More
