ARL releases white paper on integrating digital humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE - November 22, 2019
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a white paper that reports the findings of a two-year project investigating the value SHARE could have for digital humanities scholars. SHARE is an open-source community that develops tools and services to connect related research outputs for new… Read More
New SPARC Europe survey seeking insights into OE practices within European academic libraries - November 21, 2019
SPARC Europe, in consultation with the European Open Education Librarian Network, has launched a survey targeting academic libraries across Europe. The purpose of the survey is to garner insights into their Open Education practices. The ultimate goal is to use what is… Read More
Member of National Academies Committee on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science to testify on Capitol Hill - November 12, 2019
David Allison, dean, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, and a member of the committee that wrote a 2019 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on reproducibility and replicability in science, will appear before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on November… Read More
Scientific and Technical publishing market posts its strongest sales growth since 2011 - October 25, 2019
Driven by tools and online content, open access fees and digital book collections, 2018 saw the scientific and technical publishing market post its strongest sales growth since 2011. This is according to the most recent report from Simba Information, a leader in media and publishing intelligence.… Read More
First Nature Index Young universities tables and supplement published, universities in Asia strongly represented - October 24, 2019
The first Nature Index Young universities tables and supplement, which rank universities aged 50 and under have just been published. The tables reveal that young universities in China, South Korea and Singapore are performing particularly well in terms of producing high-quality research. Two tables are included… Read More
Majority of researchers want funding withheld and penalties for lack of data sharing, says new report - October 24, 2019
Figshare, the online digital repository for academic research, has launched its annual report, ‘The State of Open Data 2019,’ to coincide with global celebrations around Open Access Week. The report is the fourth in the series and includes survey results and a collection of articles from… Read More
OA popular with researchers but full potential remains untapped, reports new global study - October 21, 2019
Researchers are in favour of widening access to research but remain largely unaware of initiatives and services that have been established to encourage growth of open access (OA). New figures released for Open Access Week, reveal little consensus when it comes to permitting reuse of published research. The survey of… Read More
The British Academy publishes new report on open access and book chapters - October 21, 2019
The British Academy has published a new report exploring the opportunities and challenges of widening open access for book chapters. ‘Open Access and Book Chapters’ was commissioned by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to inform future open access policy and to underpin the decisions that UK… Read More
Wolters Kluwer survey looks at the changing nursing profession through the lens of practicing nurses - October 11, 2019
As the delivery of healthcare transforms from disease-based episodic care to patient and population health-centric models of wellness care, nurses are facing new pressures and priorities to deliver high quality, safer and more consistent care both at the bedside and in the community. This is according to a recent survey… Read More
Monograph continues to play a crucial role for researchers, reveals Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press joint report - October 3, 2019
The world’s two biggest university presses, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, have announced the results of a joint, global survey into the future of the scholarly monograph. Oxford and Cambridge University Presses together carried out a large-scale survey over… Read More
