(24 Feb 2022) Announcement from Wiley: We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Wikipedia Library, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which will connect Wikipedia editors with full-text access to Wiley Online Library content to drive better citations and more accurate content on Wikipedia, one of the Internet’s most-visited websites. With millions of…
(22 Feb 2022) vLex is delighted to announce a brand new partnership with SAGE, a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services. This exciting collaboration will enable researchers to access an additional 82 journals on vLex, covering the UK, the US and India. Titles in this collection…
(16 Feb 2022) Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has opened applications for The Eugene Garfield Award™, which recognizes early-career scientists working on innovative approaches in citation analysis. The award was launched in 2017 and has an unrestricted prize of $25,000. As a part of…
(26 Jan 2022) Clarivate has released a report from the company’s Institute for Scientific Information, proposing a new method for analysing the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations. In an increasingly global and collaborative world, where the number of articles naming dozens or even hundreds of researchers as authors is rapidly increasing, the…
(8 Feb 2022) Global research and education leader Wiley today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on open access publishing with the library directors of Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, and Tokyo University of Science. This MoU is intended to be the basis for…
(18 Jan 2022) Elsevier announced a pilot project in which the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley will syndicate selected content to the ScienceDirect platform. The articles will appear in search and browse listings. In the pilot, more than 70,000 articles in 35 journals in organic chemistry and transportation…
(1 Feb 2022) Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author profiles, including information about peer-review activity for researchers whose papers are indexed on the database. The peer-review information will be integrated from early 2022. It will come primarily from Publons, a free-to-use website…
(20 Jan 2022) ChronosHub has announced a collaboration with the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Journal Finder will make institutional and consortial open access agreements and funders’ open access policies more transparent for authors. ChronosHub assisted ACS with a public journal finder tool that includes all of ACS’ more than 75 journals, now live…
(21 Jan 2022) Gale, part of a Cengage Group, has expanded Gale Digital Scholar Lab with new and improved features that provide digital humanities (DH) researchers with a better user experience. With a new interface and redesigned analysis tools, Gale Digital Scholar Lab now provides a more consistent and streamlined experience for DH researchers that supports usability, accessibility, as well…
(17 Jan 2022) ResearchGate and IOP Publishing (IOPP) have announced a collaboration agreement to explore ways to support the scientific community through syndication of IOPP peer-reviewed scholarly content on ResearchGate’s platform. ResearchGate is a scholarly social networking site on which over 20 million scientists and researchers share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. …