Global Information Services Market Report 2019 now part of ResearchAndMarkets.com offering - January 4, 2019
The 'Information Services Global Market Report 2019' report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Global Information Services Market Report 2019 provides the strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global information services market. The information services market… Read More
Topics related to blockchain and cryptocurrency dominate SSRN scholarly research repository - December 31, 2018
SSRN, a scholarly research repository owned by scientific, technical, and medical information publishing company Elsevier, concludes that FinTech is the fastest growing area of research on its platform. Data from a recently released study by the company reveals that the most popular papers on SSRN deal… Read More
Global production of scientific papers hit an all-time high in 2018 with emerging economies rising fastest - December 27, 2018
Emerging economies showed some of the largest increases in research output in 2018, according to estimates from the publishing-services company Clarivate Analytics. Egypt and Pakistan topped the list in percentage terms, with rises of 21 percent and 15.9 percent, respectively. China's publications rose by about… Read More
SPARC Europe releases updated analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies - December 24, 2018
SPARC Europe has released the updated analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe. It reports a continued increase in the growth of related policies and an increase in uptake in countries where no such policy previously existed. The report is the latest… Read More
New Editage report highlights geographic patterns in author attitudes toward OA publishing - December 20, 2018
Global scholarly communications company Editage has released a report highlighting geographic patterns in author attitudes toward open access publishing. In September this year, Editage had released a comprehensive report based on a global author survey capturing the views of almost 7000 researchers (mostly non-Western, non–English-speaking researchers)… Read More
Nature Index 2018 reviews China’s scientific performance over the past five years - December 13, 2018
The Nature Index 2018 supplement on China reveals that China's contribution to the Nature Index rose by 75% between 2012 and 2017, much more than a selection of leading countries in the Index, such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan. China's share… Read More
OCLC Research and euroCRIS publish report on international research information management practices - December 5, 2018
OCLC Research and euroCRIS, the international organisation for research information, have published a joint research report, Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey, which examines how research institutions worldwide are applying research information management (RIM) practices. … Read More
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
