(6 Jul 2022) Wiley, a global leader in research and education, today announced its continued investment in Oable by making the innovative open access (OA) workflow management solution available to 34 customers. Oable was developed by Knowledge Unlatched, which Wiley acquired in 2021 to advance both organizations’ shared commitment to make open access simple and easy…
(30 Jun 2022) In this issue: What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally Recent writing & resources on OA Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing Go direct to the full newsletter here.
(30 Jun 2022) About the job: In this position, you will play a key role in developing strategy, policy and frameworks for Library initiatives to advance the University’s teaching and research mission. With Scholarly Collections, you will provide the vision and leadership in the acquisition and stewardship of rich and diverse collections for which…
(1 Jul 2022) IGI Global, a medium sized independent academic publisher based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA has entered a new Open Access (OA) agreement with Auckland University of Technology (AUT). The full OA agreement provides financial resources for AUT faculty to publish their research under OA with IGI Global. Read more about the agreement here.…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Fast Facts: Nine of the 16 universities in CWTS Leiden’s Gender rankings with over 50% female authorships are Polish Fifteen of the lowest-ranked universities with under 12% female authorships are Japanese Seven of the CWTS top 25 in authorships are in the top 1,000 in THE World 2022 Only two…
(29 Jun 2022) Beginning August 1, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Center system—available to the public since 2017—will fully replace the legacy Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR) tool for the electronic filing and management of patent applications. The Public PAIR tool, first launched in the early 2000s, will be officially retired on July 31,…
(29 Jun 2022) Third Iron, LLC, a leading information technology company developing innovative services for libraries, publishers, and their users, announced an integration of their LibKey service with Litmaps, a browser-based platform that enables researchers to visualize, expand, and communicate their research. This integration delivers one-click linking to PDF articles from Litmaps citation records. …
(7 Jun 2022) China plans a sweeping makeover of mainland academic journals, turning them into world-class organs similar to British weekly Nature and peer-reviewed US publication Science, to raise the profile and influence of domestic scientific research, local authorities said in Beijing on Monday. The initiative was announced at a press conference co-hosted by the China Association…
(28 Jun 2022) Cassyni, the platform for organising, running and publishing research seminars, is launching a next-generation AI video product to enrich and extract knowledge from thousands of hours of research videos. Cassyni’s technology automatically transforms unstructured research videos into structured searchable content with navigable chapters, high-quality transcripts, extracted slides from speaker presentations and resolved references.…
(28 Jun 2022) News from Google Scholar: “Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2022 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2017–2021 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed…