New independent study finds Cochrane’s transparency over reporting financial conflicts of interest is leading the way - May 21, 2020
A study published in BMJ Open this month, concludes “the percentage of recent Cochrane meta-analyses on the effects of drug interventions that transparently reported funding sources and trial author–industry financial ties and employment for included trials far exceeds reporting in other journals.”… Read More
CAS releases special report highlighting COVID-19 diagnostic test research - May 4, 2020
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specialising in scientific information solutions, has issued a special report in ACS Central Science titled ‘Assay Techniques and Test Development for COVID-19 Diagnosis.’ Drawing from global scientific publications, this report provides a detailed overview of COVID-19 diagnostic tests,… Read More
CRKN calls on members and stakeholders to participate in a survey on digitisation, access, and digital preservation - May 4, 2020
On behalf of the Heritage Content Priorities Task Group (HCPTG), CRKN invites members and stakeholders to participate in a survey on digitisation, access, and digital preservation activities in Canada. The survey covers the strategies and practices used when carrying out digitisation projects, as well as opportunities,… Read More
The 2020 Nature Index Annual Tables show strong performances from institutions with considerable funding and reputation as well as rising stars - April 30, 2020
The 2020 Nature Index Annual Tables has been released. The institutions that feature most prominently in this year’s Nature Index Annual Tables are large with considerable funding and reputation, as might be expected. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Harvard University and the Max Planck Society… Read More
ACM releases report on best practices for virtual conferences - April 17, 2020
Science and technology conferences are engines of innovation—essential to the incubation of new ideas, the dissemination of research, and the spawning of new technologies. But this year, with no warning, conferences around the globe are finding themselves in uncharted waters as the global COVID-19 pandemic makes physical meetings impossible. To… Read More
AAP releases its StatShot report for January 2020, sales across all categories in the publishing industry rise 3.7% - April 8, 2020
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has released its StatShot report for January 2020 reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, including Trade (consumer publications), K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing, and University Presses. Total sales across all categories for January 2020… Read More
Better understanding of APC funding sources may accelerate the transition to OA - April 6, 2020
A new report published by Springer Nature indicates that a better understanding of the sources of funding for article processing charges (APCs) could accelerate the transition to open access (OA) publishing. ‘APCs in the wild’ refer to those APCs that are funded from sources that cannot… Read More
ARL, CNI and EDUCAUSE release second part of Sarah Lippincott’s report on Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies - April 3, 2020
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE have released the second part of a report by Sarah Lippincott, Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning, that will be published in its… Read More
36% of NISO Plus 2020 attendees respond to a feedback survey on the inaugural conference - April 1, 2020
The National Information Standards Organisation had invited attendees to provide their feedback to tell them what they really thought about the NISO Plus 2020 in a feedback survey. 89 of the 251 participants responded to the survey, a great response rate of 36%. One of the… Read More
Scholastica announces The State of Journal Production and Access survey - March 17, 2020
Scholastica is conducting a survey on ‘The State of Journal Production and Access’ among scholarly societies, university presses, and university libraries that publish one or more journals independently. In the world of academic journal publishing, change has traditionally occurred gradually. However, as new digital publishing standards… Read More
