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Advance to acquire Turnitin, leading provider of academic integrity, grading, and feedback solutions

PublishersMarch 7, 2019

(6 Mar 2019) Advance today announced the acquisition of Turnitin, a leading provider of education technology for academic integrity and writing solutions, from an investment entity affiliated with Insight Venture Partners, GIC and their co-investors. Turnitin’s proprietary software promotes student authenticity, instructor effectiveness, and better educational outcomes. Through machine learning, computer vision, and advanced artificial intelligence,…

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iParadigms acquires Ephorus to support international expansion

PublishersMarch 7, 2019

(4 Mar 2019) iParadigms, creators of Turnitin, today announced the company has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ephorus, the European leader in plagiarism prevention with more than 5,000 customers in over 45 countries. The agreement will allow the two companies to strengthen their plagiarism prevention databases, build out European data centers and accelerate innovation around…

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ResearchGate and Springer Nature embark on pilot to deliver seamless discovery and an enhanced reading experience

PublishersMarch 5, 2019

(1 March 2019) ResearchGate and Springer Nature are partnering to pioneer innovative access models for scientific content in the rapidly evolving research ecosystem. Full-text articles published in select Nature journals since November 2017 will be rolled out to researchers’ ResearchGate profiles starting now and completed by March 7, making it easier to read or download research…

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Springer Nature expands its nanotechnology research solution with the inclusion of over 22 million patents

PublishersFebruary 27, 2019

(26 February 2019) A new module has now been added to the nanotechnology research database Nano. The patent module allows users to sort through over 22 million nano-related patents across all major jurisdictions and languages. This means that researchers can find patents from areas highly affected by nanotechnology, narrow their search by country, filing year and jurisdiction,…

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Credo Reference introducing Research Quick Tips: new video feature cultivates research skills while students search

PublishersFebruary 26, 2019

Credo Reference announced the addition of Research Quick Tips to Credo Online Reference Service, its popular exploratory research platform as a standard feature moving forward. The concise videos, embedded throughout the platform, offer research guidance for students while they are working in the platform. The new feature marks the latest in a series of innovations by the…

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JoVE releases lab-focused science education video series

Databases, PublishersFebruary 25, 2019

(20 February 2019) JoVE is releasing the JoVE Lab Manual Series. It is one of the first curriculum-focused instructional video resources of its kind for commonly taught introductory labs. Filmed in top academic labs across the United States, the series’ comprehensive and engaging video content will enable improved student learning outcomes. “Many students struggle in lab courses,…

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China’s largest online academic library CNKI criticized for monopoly

PublishersFebruary 22, 2019

(20 February 2019) China’s largest online academic library CNKI has again fallen under criticism of having a monopoly like its international counterparts, with experts and writers calling on government measures to boost the database’s social services. CNKI, or China National Knowledge Infrastructure, reportedly has over 200 million academic articles, making it the inevitable database for academic…

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AAAS launches research hotline for politicians

PublishersFebruary 20, 2019

(19 February 2019) The world’s biggest scientific society is creating a helpline for policymakers as researchers worldwide take steps to address what they are seeing more clearly in the Trump era as glaring deficits of academic expertise in governmental decision-making. The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s move to create the hotline for science-based questions…

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Launch of BMJ Author Services in collaboration with Editage

PublishersFebruary 20, 2019

(15 February 2019) Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has partnered with Editage to offer language editing and translation services to medical researchers who seek to publish in healthcare science journals. BMJ Author Services will enable medical researchers across the globe to clearly communicate their research, potentially in one of BMJ’s 70 medical and allied science journal titles. As specialists…

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OCLC partners with Couperin.org to add analytics features to EZproxy authentication software

Publishers, ToolsFebruary 15, 2019

(13 February 2019) OCLC is partnering with the Couperin.org Consortium, the French non-profit that developed ezPAARSE software with the CNRS Institute for Scientific Information, to enhance OCLC’s EZproxy authentication software with analytics features and to expand the use of ezPAARSE outside of France. For the full press release, see here.

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