Open Access Trends 2017: Challenges and Opportunities - January 11, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has examined open access in two recent reports - Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 and Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 - and sees several trends developing in 2017. Open access has grown from a conceptual movement to transformational force… Read More
ProQuest releases results of its 2016 Information Literacy Survey - January 6, 2017
Though 83% of librarians agree that information literacy affects college graduation rates and 97% believe that this skill set contributes to success in the workforce, 44% think that their library does not support information literacy instruction as much as it should. A recent ProQuest survey… Read More
Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results - January 4, 2017
Scientific behavioural medicine journal Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results. Some in the scientific community view null results research as a failure because, by its very definition, a null result means what you expected would happen in your study did not happen. Translational Behavioral… Read More
Joint white paper covering Semantic Interoperability for the Internet of Things - December 21, 2016
Technical professional organisation IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) have announced their collaborative role in the publication of a joint white paper entitled Semantic Interoperability for the Web of Things in conjunction with organisations closely tied to the advancement of the… Read More
KLAS Clinical Decision Support 2016 report features two EBSCO Health clinical resources as top performing point-of-care reference tools for disease/drug reference - December 7, 2016
Two EBSCO Health clinical resources were the top performing point-of-care reference tools for disease/drug reference in the KLAS Clinical Decision Support 2016 report. KLAS, a research firm that specialises in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors, found that DynaMed™/DynaMed Plus® and Nursing Reference Center™… Read More
Elsevier partners with the US National Cancer Moonshot Initiative to launch first assessment of cancer research on global scale - December 6, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the first installment of a benchmark report on worldwide cancer research activity. The report, designed to help inform and extend the effectiveness of the White House National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, together with an online Cancer Moonshot Resource Center, are part… Read More
Formatting and avoiding errors in the final digital output are hot topics for publishing professionals, says Data Conversion Laboratory and Bowker’s Digital Publishing Survey - November 29, 2016
Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL) and Bowker have delivered the results of their 2016 Digital Publishing Survey, and the answers point to worries over quality and consistency when content goes from print to digital. The survey was jointly conducted by DCL, an… Read More
New study proposes pragmatic scenario for transitioning the publication system towards Open Access - November 22, 2016
The Swiss National Science Foundation in collaboration with the Scientific Information programme (SUC P-2) run by swissuniversities has initiated a study, which for the first time, has developed scenarios for restructuring transitioning Switzerland's scientific publication system towards Open Access (OA). The study recommends a model that… Read More
U-M Library and Knowledge Unlatched survey to focus on the scalability of OA monographs in the humanities and social sciences - November 18, 2016
In June 2016 the University of Michigan Library (U-M Library) and Knowledge Unlatched (KU) began a collaboration 'to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).' One of the products of this partnership… Read More
Collaboration between British and EU scientists increased over the four years prior to the UK’s Brexit vote, reports Nature Index - November 17, 2016
According to the Nature Index, collaboration between British and EU scientists increased over the four years prior to the UK's Brexit vote. The index's data show that, on average, cross-channel partnerships were producing 26% more high-quality research in 2015 than in 2012, with the average collaboration… Read More
