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
Capturing growth and share in emerging markets will continue to be a key strategy for medical publishers, says new Simba report - January 27, 2015
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a new report 'Global Medical Publishing 2015-2019,' according to which, clinical-based publishing is projected to see some of its most rapid growth in Turkey, Chile, South Korea, Mexico, Greece and Great Britain. The… Read More
Almost half of IT staff in HE are not involved in the delivery of transnational education by their own institution overseas, says report - January 20, 2015
Almost half of IT staff in higher education (HE) are not involved in the delivery of transnational education (TNE) by their own institution overseas, according to a joint report by Jisc and the Observatory of Borderless Higher Education (OBHE). The research – which was designed… Read More
Digital Publishing Interest Group publishes Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report - January 12, 2015
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report. The Metadata Task Force of the DPUB IG found, through extensive interviews with representatives of various sectors and roles within the publishing ecosystem, that there are numerous pain points… Read More
