Information prices will outstrip information management budget growth in 2016, says new Outsell report - February 17, 2016
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced publication of a new report, 2016 Information Pricing Study. Outsell's research indicates that planned price increases by content vendors will outstrip flat buyer budgets, leaving information managers with tough decisions, and content sellers with a battle for market… Read More
Zika crisis: Cambridge University Press produces free recommendations - February 12, 2016
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has published a summary of evidence and recommendations in response to the outbreak of the Zika virus, focused on the risks for pregnant women. The report is provided free-of-charge as a public service in the current crisis. Zika virus has… Read More
Elsevier unveils landmark literature on India’s healthcare reforms - February 10, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier recently announced the launch of Health Care Reforms in India: Making Up for the Lost Decade, an authoritative and incisive look at India's healthcare system from the perspective of Rajendra Pratap Gupta, an expert healthcare observer as well as an influential and respected… Read More
ITHAKA S+R releases new report on costs of publishing scholarly monographs - February 8, 2016
AAUP heralds ITHAKA S+R's publication of 'The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Towards a Transparent Methodology.' The study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and conducted by Nancy Maron and Kimberly Schmelzinger, developed a ground-up, activity-based methodology for… Read More
Wolters Kluwer releases complimentary Antimicrobial Stewardship Gap Analysis to help hospitals improve Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs - February 5, 2016
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the release of a complimentary Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Gap Analysis to help healthcare organisations evaluate and establish strategies for enhancing AMS programs in response… Read More
New report identifies datasets to be explored to increase the UK’s global competitive advantage in research and innovation - February 4, 2016
A wide range of datasets across the research and innovation landscape have been identified and described in a recently published report, setting out a plan for exploiting these to their full potential to help maintain and develop the UK's excellence in research and innovation. The UK Knowledge and Research Landscape:… Read More
AAP welcomes Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force White Paper - February 1, 2016
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has welcomed the newly-released U.S. Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force 'White Paper on Remixes, First Sale, and Statutory Damages.' It offers well-reasoned conclusions and recommendations that reflect a thorough analysis of diverse stakeholder views on these issues of… Read More
Outsell, Inc. publishes new report on text and data mining - January 26, 2016
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced the publication of a new report, Text and Data Mining: Technologies Under Construction. The report takes a close look at how scientific research, engineering, and healthcare are currently deploying text and data mining (TDM), and what the future… Read More
Wiley survey examines how best to support peer reviewers - January 20, 2016
The results of a recent survey to appear in Learned Publishing highlight how the peer review process - when research is evaluated by experts before it is published - might be improved to better support reviewers who lend their time and expertise. Key findings from the study include the need… Read More
ARL releases Library Liaison report, spurs discussion of liaison roles - December 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries has released the final report of a pilot Library Liaison Institute organised by Columbia University Libraries, Cornell University Libraries, and the University of Toronto Libraries, and held at Cornell University in June 2015. Nearly 50 liaison librarians from the three Association… Read More
