Clarivate Analytics releases 2017 State of Innovation Report: The Relentless Desire to Advance - September 27, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, has released the 2017 State of Innovation Report: The Relentless Desire to Advance. According to the report, analysis of year-over-year research and patent activity across 12 key industries shows… Read More
NISO releases Issues in Vocabulary Management Technical Report - September 26, 2017
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the… Read More
Scientific & technical publishing market flat in 2016, says new Simba report - September 25, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report titled 'Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2017-2021.' The report notes that once a fast growing, predictable and inflation-proof market, scientific and technical publishing is now mostly flat and increasingly subject to… Read More
Collaborative monograph storage feasibility study published - September 1, 2017
For many university libraries, space shortage remains a major challenge, particularly balancing the need for increasing study space while some physical collections continue to grow. The HE sector has worked in partnership with the British Library (BL) since 2007 to manage print journals collaboratively through the… Read More
Primary Research Group publishes Survey of the Academic Library Role in the Use of Open Access Textbooks and Other Open Access Educational Materials - August 25, 2017
Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of the Academic Library Role in the Use of Open Access Textbooks and Other Open Access Educational Materials. This seminal study presents data from 50 colleges and universities about their academic library policies in providing open access… Read More
New study explores most popular phase of product development for starting medical publications activities - August 21, 2017
A new study by business intelligence provider Cutting Edge Information has found that the highest percentage of surveyed life science teams (30%) delay medical publications activities until products enter the registration and launch phase of product development. The study, 'Planning Medical Abstracts and Manuscripts,' analysed… Read More
Nature Index points industry to institutions providing ideas behind inventions - August 10, 2017
The Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement sheds new light on the impact academic research is having on innovation by examining how research articles are cited in third party patents. By looking at patents owned by third parties – informed by and citing academic work – rather… Read More
Digital options are boosting space creativity and flexibility, reveals ProQuest survey - August 2, 2017
As libraries increasingly function as 'community hubs,' public librarians are prioritising space reclamation to create collaborative spaces, maker/hacker spaces and meeting rooms. This is according to a new ProQuest survey of public librarians about their views, plans and strategies related to space reclamation. A topic… Read More
Readers from TrendMD Network save 77 percent more articles to Mendeley, says study - July 27, 2017
A recent study published in Scientometrics illustrates that readers who discover articles from a TrendMD article recommendation save 77% more of these articles to Mendeley. Replicated studies have found that article saves of scholarly articles on reference managers such as Mendeley precede… Read More
New Jisc Report: Changing publishing ecologies – A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing - July 24, 2017
Jisc has released a new report - Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing. The report, by Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University) and Graham Stone (Jisc, formerly Collections and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Huddersfield), benchmarks the development of… Read More
