Springer Nature launches its 2018 Responsible Business Report - March 28, 2019
Springer Nature has launched its Responsible Business Report for 2018. The report outlines how Springer Nature, a publisher of open access research, publisher of Nature and parent of Macmillan Education, helps the research, education and professional communities it serves to advance discovery and learning, and sets… Read More
Growing international collaboration not yet enough to halt decline in Japan’s research output, reports Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement - March 21, 2019
The Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement shows that global research performance in Japan continues to fall, but the number of international research partnerships is increasing. Japan’s contribution to high-quality scientific research fell by 19.9 percent between January 2012 and October 2018. But efforts to increase international… Read More
IOP Publishing launches 2018 annual report - March 15, 2019
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has launched its annual report for 2018. The report showcases the company’s strong performance in 2018, and explains how it plans to respond to the challenges facing scientific publishing. IOPP recorded an impressive all-round performance in 2018, thanks… Read More
Plan S: HighWire whitepaper explores implementation options publishers are considering - March 11, 2019
The HighWire community recently came together to identify and explore 14 implementation options for publishers and how they could deliver against the 10 principles as set out by cOAlition S. A whitepaper, published earlier this month, summarises the findings and details the four most preferred options.… Read More
Research4Life and GOALI to develop common online training modules for its programmes - March 8, 2019
Research4Life launched GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) in March 2018 to provide developing countries with access to academic legal content and training. For the first anniversary, the team launched a feedback survey in order to better understand what their users need. More than… Read More
Threats to copyright protections seen as ‘Existential’, reports Simba Information - February 20, 2019
Copyright protection and the many ways it is perceived to be under threat were a recurring theme to proceedings at the Association of American Publishers annual Professional and Scholarly Publishing conference on February 7, reports market research firm Simba Information. Simba Information covers issues of copyright… Read More
New Elsevier/Ipsos MORI study shows that the research ecosystem is changing rapidly and profoundly - February 15, 2019
In 10 years' time, the academic world will see new funding models, methods of collaboration, and ways of conceptualising research and measuring its impact - all driven by advances in technology, reveals an empirical study, conducted by information analytics business Elsevier and market research organisation Ipsos… Read More
ResearchAndMarkets.com adds ‘Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022’ report to its offering - February 13, 2019
The 'Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022' report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report explains the origins of the open access movement, gives a timeline for its development, but most importantly, it quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment, using the information… Read More
O’Reilly’s new survey explores tools and best practices for advanced analytics and AI - January 31, 2019
O'Reilly, a source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, has announced the results of its 'Evolving Data Infrastructure' survey, which explores the tools companies are using for their advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects and the best practices they have acquired along the way.… Read More
Institute for Scientific Information unveils Global Research Report – Profiles not Metrics - January 30, 2019
The Institute for Scientific Information, the 'university' of Web of Science Group has launched its Global Research Reports - a new series of publications aimed at those who deal with research in academia, corporations, publishers and governments to inform, to stimulate debate and to demonstrate the rich information potential of… Read More
