Scholastica announces new edition of Academic Journal Management Best Practices: Tales From the Trenches - June 12, 2020
Scholastica, a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated peer review and open access publishing tools, has announced the release of a completely revamped 2nd edition of its eBook Academic Journal Management Best Practices: Tales From the Trenches. Like the first edition, this eBook… Read More
O’Reilly for Higher Education now available for all UC campuses - June 10, 2020
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE) is now available for all UC campuses on O’Reilly’s new platform: http://uclibs.org/PID/432785. OHE contains close to 48,000 titles of technical eBooks, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths and audio books from O’Reilly & Associates, including selective titles from over… Read More
HighWire implements industry-leading disaster recovery scheme to enable full platform functionality - June 10, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire is implementing a new industry-leading data recovery centre which is designed to enable full platform functionality and data to be restored within a matter of hours, potentially minutes. The new recovery service will be deployed to all HighWire customers commencing… Read More
NIH launches preprint pilot to test NIH-funded research searchable preprints - June 10, 2020
The National Institutes of Health is launching the first phase of a pilot project designed to test the viability of making preprints resulting from NIH-funded research searchable in PubMed Central (PMC), a widely-used digital archive of full-text articles and, by extension, discoverable… Read More
Europe PMC to take in full text of COVID-19 preprints - June 9, 2020
In this pandemic, researchers have responded by publishing results rapidly, often through preprints. In fact, up to half of the publications in Europe PMC on COVID-19 are preprints rather than peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, the full text of these preprints are scattered as PDFs on preprint… Read More
EBSCO Information Services announces suite of resources for business studies from Harvard Business Publishing - June 5, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the release of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) Resources for Business Studies, which includes the new Harvard Business Publishing Student Success Package. The resources provide unique content to support business students to prepare them for the business… Read More
Cactus Communications launches integrated ecosystem of tools for academic researchers - June 4, 2020
Cactus Communications, a technology company accelerating scientific advancement, has announced the launch of R (researcher.life), an extensive integrated ecosystem of tools and support for academic researchers. The ecosystem currently offers six tools and platforms, all designed to address a specific need… Read More
Scientific American’s international network of magazines launch public webpage combining COVID-19 content from five of its publications - June 3, 2020
Scientific American’s international network of magazines has launched a public webpage that combines COVID-19 stories from five of its publications: https://sciam.international/coronavirus/. This source brings readers the latest science news and expert analysis on this pandemic in one place—from the biology of the virus to the treatment… Read More
CABI relaunches agriRxiv to offer access to preprints across agriculture and allied sciences - June 3, 2020
CABI is relaunching agriRxiv with a new website offering researchers and students access to preprints across agriculture and allied sciences. Preprints are drafts of research articles that authors typically share with the wider community for feedback before submitting their final version… Read More
Research Square offers badges via Preprint Platform - June 3, 2020
The preprint platform Research Square is offering badges to researchers who post a preprint to its multidisciplinary preprint platform, also known as Research Square. Preprint authors can purchase a badge in Methods or Statistics Reporting to certify their preprint and demonstrate that… Read More
