(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…
(28 Jun 2022) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released the 2022 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The annual JCR release enables the research community to evaluate the world’s high-quality academic journals using a range of indicators, descriptive data…
Karger Publishers has acquired the British company Research Publishing International (RPI) for an undisclosed amount. Together, RPI and Karger will support researchers and the Health Sciences/Healthcare ecosystem in making scientific findings more accessible and comprehensible to a wider audience. (27 Jun 2022) On 16 June 2022, Karger Publishers acquired the science communications agency Research Publishing International,…