More than 80 percent of students use mobile technology to study, says new McGraw-Hill Education report - March 11, 2015
Mobile use among students was on the rise from 2013 to 2014, according to new research released by McGraw-Hill Education. The second annual report, 'The Impact of Technology on College Student Study Habits,' conducted by McGraw-Hill Education and Hanover Research, found that 81 percent of students… Read More
Research reveals sharp rise in the number of students using social media to stay in touch with tutors at college and university - February 27, 2015
Research has revealed a sharp rise in the number of students using social media to stay in touch with tutors at college and university, with 40 percent of students now using social as their primary means of communication with lecturers. Facebook is the most popular form of communication, followed… Read More
Allen Press announces 42 percent increase in the number of journals hosted on the Pinnacle Online Publishing platform - February 26, 2015
Allen Press, Inc., has announced that over the past twelve months, the number of journals hosted on its Pinnacle Online Publishing platform has increased by 42 percent. The platform will now host 184 publications on 117 publisher websites. This growth also includes 23 publishers previously hosting… Read More
New SAGE report calls for £4.7 billion annual increase in UK’s social science and innovation budget over the next Parliament - February 25, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has published a major new report, written by the Campaign for Social Sciences (CfSS), highlighting the value of social sciences to the UK economy and society. 'The Business of People: The Significance of Social Science over the Next Decade' calls for at… Read More
New NISO white paper explores the future of library resource discovery - February 24, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper, The Future of Library Resource Discovery, written by independent consultant, speaker, and author Marshall Breeding. The white paper was commissioned by NISO's Discovery to Delivery (D2D) Topic Committee as part of its ongoing examination of… Read More
Nature-Springer deal further consolidates STM publishing - February 18, 2015
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners announced January 15 an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education — namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education. This announcement is… Read More
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products - February 17, 2015
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products, according to a perspective piece published online February 16 in the Pediatrics journal. Joel Bakan from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues examined whether the fear of… Read More
Medical journals close their eyes when publishing research ruled fraudulent or misleading by FDA - February 16, 2015
Professional journals touting the latest developments in medicine have often ignored serious problems raised by federal health regulators with the research in question, according to a study. Charles Seife, a New York University journalism professor and the study’s author, reviewed 78 published papers on clinical trials with which the… Read More
Inaugural ‘2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report powered by Scopus data and SciVal analytics - February 4, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the inaugural and newly-released '2015 Best Chinese University Ranking' report, based on Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC)'s evaluation, is anchored on its Scopus research database and powered by metrics from SciVal analytics – both part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio.… Read More
New whitepaper compares and contrasts linked data initiatives at OCLC and the Library of Congress - January 28, 2015
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and the Library of Congress jointly released a whitepaper which compares and contrasts the compatible linked data initiatives at both institutions. The whitepaper is an executive summary of a more detailed technical analysis that will be released… Read More
