(12 Jan 2022) Submissions are now open for the 2022 EBSCO Solar grant program from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). For the seventh consecutive year, EBSCO is accepting applications for grants that will fund solar installations at libraries around the world. As part of the 2022 EBSCO Solar initiative, EBSCO will be making a total of…
(12 Jan 2022) Altmetric.com has now officially tracked over200 million mentions of nearly 20 million research outputs. These 200 million mentions have come from a huge variety of sources, including social media, blogs, Wikipedia, policy documents, patents, news outlets and more. In 2021 Altmetric.com has expanded coverage on multiple language versions of Wikipedia, policy documents…
(2 Jan 2022) World’s biggest digital library of Chinese journals under pressure over copyright infringement. A high-profile case against China’s largest academic database has triggered heated debate over the future of open access publishing in the country. Zhao Dexin, a retired professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, won a copyright lawsuit…
(6 Jan 2022) Global research and education leader Wiley today announced a three-year open access agreement with the National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST), in the Republic of Korea. The agreement, which marks Wiley’s first in East Asia, will enable researchers at 25 institutions across the Republic of Korea to publish accepted…
(16 Dec 2021) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE: BMY), the leading independent publisher, today announces that it has completed the purchase of ABC-CLIO LLC (“ABC-CLIO”). ABC-CLIO is an established academic publisher of reference, nonfiction, online curriculum and professional development materials in both print and digital formats for schools, academic libraries and public libraries, primarily in…
(13 Dec 2021) Scholarcy has recently partnered with Science Says to index millions of evidence-based facts from food science research papers, making the latest discoveries in this field more accessible to a broad community of readers. Scholarcy’s knowledge extraction technology identifies the important facts, claims and findings from research papers and presents these as easy-to-read, bite-sized synopses.…
(22 Dec 2021) Skillsoft, a global leader in corporate digital learning, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Codecademy, a leading online learning platform for technical skills, for approximately $525 million in cash and stock. Codecademy is an innovative and popular learning platform providing high-demand technical skills to approximately 40 million…
(8 Dec 2021) STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM (The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) today announced that it has started the development of a powerful new platform to detect integrity issues in manuscripts submitted for publication to scholarly journals. “This collaboration hub will provide a cloud-based environment for publishers…
(1 Dec 2021) Growth in digital helped Cambridge University Press serve its global customers and successfully navigate the pandemic ahead of its integration with Cambridge Assessment. Report covers the 15 months leading up to its integration with Cambridge Assessment to become Cambridge University Press & Assessment Rapid increase in use of digital products and services…
(6 Dec 2021) Springer Nature has acquired the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science from Morgan & Claypool Publishers, a pioneer in online publishing of concise books on the newest areas of engineering and computer science. With the acquisition of the Synthesis Digital Library, Springer Nature strengthens its book portfolio in Artificial Intelligence, Electrical…