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
China’s high quality research output grew 37 percent from 2012 to 2014, reveals new analysis of Nature Index data - December 17, 2015
China's high quality research output grew 37% from 2012 to 2014, according to new analysis of Nature Index data. The United States saw a 4% drop over this period in the same Nature Index metric (weighted fractional count; WFC). The Nature Index 2015 China supplement,… Read More
Springer Nature and the Confederation of Indian Industry partner to release the first ever nature index report on science in India at the CII global higher education summit - December 3, 2015
The Nature Index analytics report Indian Science Ascending is the first of a new style of reports that further probe data from the Nature Index to answer questions about India’s place in global science, especially when compared with countries that have similar volumes of index output… Read More
Chinese research must continue to transform and reform to achieve the country’s goal of driving innovation-led development, says new NPG White Paper - November 30, 2015
Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, has released Turning Point: Chinese Science in Transition, a White Paper which takes the pulse of China's scientific research at a critical time in its development. It is the first report of its kind to be undertaken in… Read More
