ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data – Draft white paper open for comments through November 30 - November 19, 2018
In June 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) charged a task force to look at Wikidata. The task force emerged from several years of discussion between ARL and the Wikimedia Foundation on where the two communities can effectively collaborate. The focus on Wikidata and Wikibase… Read More
Frontier Economics’ new report outlines integral role of academic publishing in the UK - November 13, 2018
Frontier Economics has released an independent research that sets out publishing's contribution to the innovation cycle, incorporating existing research with stakeholder views. The report finds that without the highly specialised and time-intensive tasks carried out by UK academic publishers, innovation may be less effective. It also… Read More
CCC co-funded Resource Access for the 21st Century (RA21) Corporate Pilot Report published - November 7, 2018
The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have released their RA21 Corporate Pilot Report, co-funded by Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC). The report identifies best practices for adopting… Read More
New RLUK, The National Archives and Jisc report to initiate a discussion about citation practices - November 2, 2018
Research Libraries UK (RLUK), The National Archives (TNA) and Jisc have published a report to kickstart a discussion about citation practices, and how to standardise references to unique and distinct collections (UDC's) held in repositories across the UK.… Read More
Nature Index unveils first global science city ranking, Beijing is the top science city globally - November 1, 2018
The Nature Index 2018 Science Cities supplement, published in Nature, includes the first Nature Index global science city ranking. The ranking confirms dominance of China and the United States in research output. Beijing is the top science city globally, followed by New York, Boston, San Francisco… Read More
Clarivate Analytics and Malaysia’s Ministry of Education jointly produce research and innovation landscape report - October 26, 2018
Clarivate Analytics and Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (KPM), Malaysia's Ministry of Education (MOE), have jointly produced a research and innovation landscape report that describes Malaysia's research and innovation output for the period 2013 - 2017. Powered by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science… Read More
Clarivate Analytics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ joint annual report highlights 100 hot research areas and 38 emerging specialties in global scientific research - October 24, 2018
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have released 'Research Fronts 2018', their joint annual report identifying 138 prominent subspecialties of scientific research from 2012 until… Read More
Figshare launches its annual report – The State of Open Data 2018 - October 24, 2018
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has launched its annual report, The State of Open Data 2018, to coincide with global celebrations around Open Access Week. The report is the third in the series and includes survey results and a collection of articles from… Read More
Growth in Open Access showing signs of slowing down, says Delta Think’s updated Open Access Market Sizing analysis - October 23, 2018
Delta Think, a consulting and advisory firm focused on innovation and growth in scholarly communications, has announced the release of a new Open Access Market Sizing analysis as part of the continually updated Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool (OA… Read More
OCLC and Ithaka S+R publish new report on aligning library strategies with university directions - October 19, 2018
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC and Ithaka S+R have published a new report, ‘University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions,’ which establishes a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms and university types. The report is available on the… Read More
