CARL releases report on preservation functionality in repositories - December 23, 2019
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has announced the publication of the second report in a series by its Open Repositories Working Group (ORWG) – this report focuses on preservation functionality in repositories. Digital Preservation Functionality in Canadian Repositories was written… Read More
Choice’s latest white paper examines changes to research data services in academic libraries - December 13, 2019
Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Librarians, has announced the publication of the fifth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, ‘Research Data Services in Academic… Read More
Clarivate Analytics, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Higher Education Press of China release annual joint report to identify over 100 engineering fronts - December 10, 2019
Clarivate Analytics plc, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Higher Education Press of China has released their joint report ‘Engineering Fronts 2019’ to identify the hottest areas in engineering research… Read More
Institute for Scientific Information releases new global research report examining impact of multi-authorship on citations - December 4, 2019
A new report released by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate Analytics identifies a growing number of research articles in the Web of Science with 1,000 or more unique authors across more than 100 different countries. Multi-authorship and research analytics examines… Read More
Publishers fully committed to Open Access transition, says new report - December 3, 2019
Academic publishers want to make the transition to Open Access (OA) a reality as comprehensively and rapidly as possible and see transformative agreements as vital to this process, according to a new independent report titled, Evidence to inform a response to the UKRI review of Open… Read More
Clarivate Analytics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences release annual joint report to identify 137 Research Fronts - November 26, 2019
Clarivate Analytics plc, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released their joint report ‘Research Fronts 2019’ to identify the hottest and emerging specialty areas in scientific… Read More
US-China research collaborations to be stronger than ever, while UK-EU collaborations halt, reveals latest Nature Index supplement - November 22, 2019
The number of articles tracked by the Nature Index that were co-authored by Chinese and US researchers increased from 3,413 in 2015 to 4,631 in 2018. Data from the Nature Index also showed that Chinese authors collaborated with researchers in the US more often than any… Read More
SPARC releases new report – Academic Community Control of Data Infrastructure – A Roadmap for Action - November 22, 2019
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new report: Academic Community Control of Data Infrastructure – A Roadmap for Action, to help academic institutions combat the publishing industry’s increasing control over academic data and data infrastructure. The Roadmap for Action outlines individual… Read More
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
