Gale Analytics introduces new interactive dashboards to provide public libraries with dynamic data to drive marketing programs and services - July 1, 2020
Gale, a Cengage company, is helping public libraries analyse data more efficiently to better serve their patrons and communities. Gale Analytics has introduced new interactive dashboards that provide public libraries with valuable insights into their service areas. Now library staff can dynamically… Read More
Springer Healthcare Independent Medical Education (IME) unveils new portal - June 30, 2020
Springer Healthcare IME has launched a new website to enable easier and more comprehensive access to its current and legacy educational programs. The new website features a full array of independent educational content including meetings and symposia, webinars and webcasts, eLearning solutions, case-based learning and digital… Read More
The American Society of Anesthesiologists expands partnership with Wolters Kluwer to publish and relaunch ASA Monitor - June 30, 2020
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has announced its expanded partnership with Wolters Kluwer to publish and relaunch its publication, the ASA Monitor, to bring a full range of perioperative health care news and information to physician anesthesiologists, surgical care team members… Read More
NISO announces publication of revised version of its Recommended Practice Open Discovery Initiative - June 30, 2020
NISO has announced that a revised version of its Recommended Practice Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery, is now published and freely available for use by the information community. Originally published in 2014, the proposed revisions to this Recommended Practice were… Read More
The MIT Press launches Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 - June 30, 2020
The MIT Press has announced the launch of Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open access, rapid-review overlay journal that will accelerate peer review of COVID-19-related research and deliver real-time, verified scientific information that policymakers and health leaders can use. Scientists and… Read More
EMS Press launches Subscribe To Open for 10 journals - June 29, 2020
EMS Press, the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society, has announced the launch of its Subscribe To Open (S2O) programme. 10 journals, including the European Mathematical Society’s flagship journal, the Journal of the European Mathematical Society, have been selected for the initial S2O round which,… Read More
EBSCO Information Services develops SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries to improve usage reporting - June 26, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has developed a new resource to make harvesting COUNTER reports easier. The SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries (the R5 Harvester) is a Microsoft® Access® tool designed to help small to medium size consortia more easily gather COUNTER reports for their affiliated libraries.… Read More
Google set to launch ‘new news experience’ later this year; to pay publishers to license content - June 26, 2020
Google has announced that it will begin paying news publishers for ‘high-quality content’ with the launch of a ‘new news experience’ later this year. The move marks a major departure for Google, which has until now steadfastly refused to compensate news publishers for content. As news organisations’ digital advertising revenues… Read More
2019 CiteScoreTM values released, improved methodology introduced to provide a faster, more stable indicator of research impact - June 23, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has released the 2019 CiteScoreTM values, its latest assessment of thousands of peer-reviewed research journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications covered in Scopus. In addition, an improved calculation methodology has been introduced to provide… Read More
Hindawi announces a range of new author service agreements to aid Authors make the most of their research - June 22, 2020
Hindawi has launched a new author services section of its website – providing authors with the ability to take advantage of a wide range of tools and services to help them make the most of their research throughout the publication process. Due to new agreements with… Read More