(7 Oct 2020) IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot to transform its complete journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles including the flagship journal “Water, Science and Technology” to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, IWA Publishing…
(30 Sept 2020) As part of its continuing drive towards a more open and transparent research environment, Oxford University Press (OUP) has recently implemented new research data policies in over 290 of the journals in its portfolio. The new policy, launched formally earlier in 2020, provides a framework through which OUP’s journals and society partners can proactively encourage authors…
(29 Sept 2020) Digital Science has partnered with Google Cloud to remove barriers to data access, analysis and visualization for organizations across the research and innovation ecosystem. With its new integration, the Dimensions database is now available to be analyzed on BigQuery, Google Cloud’s serverless, highly scalable and secure multi-cloud data warehouse. In today’s…
(22 Sept 2020) IOP Publishing (IOPP) is revolutionising peer review learning with the launch of the world’s first peer review certification programme dedicated to the physical sciences. ‘Peer review excellence: IOP training and certification’ will give early career researchers the ability to review with confidence, increasing trust and standardising the quality of the process. …
(22 Sept 2020) Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CCC), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has released a regional landscape report highlighting the current trends in indigenous research across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region. The report looks at the academics, affiliate institutions and regions that are contributing largely to indigenous…
(17 Sept 2020) Scholytics is a research evaluation platform that covers scholarly performance data of over 170,000 institutions and 25 million authors in 230 countries. Scholytics aims to be the transparent reference and analytical tool for effectively evaluating research performance. With the launch of the platform in August in South Korea, Scholytics is quickly expanding to…
(27 Aug 2020) In the first partnership of this type with an institution in Asia, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce a transformative open access agreement with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. The agreement, which will last through 2023, will help accelerate open access publishing…
(9 Sept 2020) Medical knowledge provider BMJ has launched a new Comorbidities tool from BMJ Best Practice to improve care for patients with underlying conditions who are admitted to hospital. BMJ Best Practice is the only point of care tool able to treat the whole patient by taking account of a patient’s acute (urgent) condition alongside their existing…
(1 Sept 2020) Gale, a Cengage company, today announced the launch of Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep, a new innovative online career assessment platform for libraries – powered by Peterson’s® – that gives patrons access to career development tools. Now libraries can provide job seekers with career planning and guidance resources to explore new paths that align with…
RegMedNet partners with Dimensions to provide members with free access to data on the latest regenerative medicine funding and grants. (1 Sept 2020) RegMedNet, part of Future Science Group, and Dimensions, part of Digital Science, have partnered to expand access to data on the latest public and private grants and funding for regenerative medicine…