Nature Index 2016 Australia and New Zealand supplement names Melbourne and Sydney as leading hotspots for innovation in Australia - October 27, 2016
According to the Nature Index, Melbourne was Australia's leading city in terms of high-quality science output in 2015, followed by Sydney. The index also shows that Brisbane saw the fastest growth in output between 2012 and 2015, and is home to the highest-placed institution in Australia,… Read More
New Figshare report provides new insights into the global state of open data - October 26, 2016
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has released the results of its global survey of 2,000 researchers and report, "The State of Open Data," to assess the global landscape around open data and sharing practices. This report has been supported by parent company
Knowledge Unlatched launches institutional usage statistics reports - October 25, 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for- profit company based in England, has announced that it will be launching institutional usage statistics reports in November for libraries which participated in KU's Pilot Open Access e-book collection. The reports are based on institutional IP addresses using COUNTER-compliant data… Read More
Outsell releases Information Industry Outlook 2017 report, with the key theme ‘All Data, Nothing But Data’ - October 10, 2016
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has released its Information Industry Outlook 2017 report, with the key theme All Data, Nothing But Data. From individualised medical treatment to targeted mobile ad buys, the burgeoning number of applications for machine driven data analytics solutions offer a revenue… Read More
Open access represents one third of all research articles published, says Simba report - October 7, 2016
The number of open access (OA) research articles published annually is growing at double the rate of the complete spectrum of research articles. This is according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information. The report, Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020,… Read More
IOP Publishing announces reviewer survey in a bid to help understand communities’ needs - September 23, 2016
As part of Peer Review Week, IOP Publishing is launching a reviewer survey to better understand the experience of refereeing an article and to provide an evidential basis for the further development of their referee services. Developments in scientific publishing can often focus on the experience… Read More
New ‘results free’ peer-review process to be piloted for academic publishing - September 21, 2016
The open access journal, BMC Psychology, has announced it will launch the first ever randomised controlled trial to find out if a 'results free' peer-review process can help reduce publication bias. 'Results free' means that reviewers of research manuscripts submitted for publication will not be able… Read More
The ASEAN group nearly doubled its share of the world’s research papers since 2006, increasing patenting activity by over 40% in the past three years, says new report - August 26, 2016
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN collectively almost doubled its share of the world's research papers (scientific literature), and increased its patenting activity, a common industry measure of innovation, by more than 40 percent in the last three years. These are just some of… Read More
Publishing industry remains confident post-Brexit, says new Publishers Association survey - August 4, 2016
The Publishers Association recently conducted a survey, according to which, more than 70% of publishers remain committed to their business investment plans despite Britain's vote to leave the European Union. The survey also identified key priorities for the industry going forward which included ensuring a strong… Read More
New 1science study shows traditional scholarly journals need green open access to retain their relevance - August 4, 2016
1science, a provider of software tools and analytics to accelerate the transition to open access, has announced the availability of the first results of a large-scale study on open access. The results reveal that freely available scholarly papers, otherwise known as open access papers, have a… Read More
