Think Check Submit now available in Chinese
(30 May 2017) Think Check Submit is now available in Chinese. The announcement is here.
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New Oriental Education leads $13m in Chinese children’s stories content start-up
(29 May 2017) New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. has led a RMB90 million (US$13 million) funding round in Kaishuo Jianggushi, a children’s stories content provider. Chinese growth capital firm Trustbridge Partners, Shanghai-listed Zhejiang Daily Digital Culture Group and iResearch Capital also participated in the round. The funding round is part of a new…
Open Therapeutics and AuthorAID to cooperate on advancing scientific knowledge
(26 May 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA and Oxford, UK) Open Therapeutics and INASP’s AuthorAID project announce the formation of a unique scientific collaboration service for helping underserved scientists around the world communicate break-through therapeutic biotechnology research. The partnership will provide scientific researchers an ability to conduct or receive mentorship, educational materials, and grant funding. AuthorAID…
Nature Index: over 50% of China’s high-quality research involves international co-authors
(24 May 2017) The Nature Index 2017 China supplement, published today, reveals that as China’s total number of articles included in the Nature Index increased since 2012, the percentage of articles with international co-authors has continued to rise year-on-year. By 2016, papers with international co-authors comprised more than 50% of the country’s articles in the…
10,000 additional photographs and cartoons from Condé Nast at ArtStor
(24 May 2017) Condé Nast is providing nearly 10,000 additional images to the Artstor Digital Library, bringing their total contribution to approximately 33,000. The release encompasses images from the Condé Nast Archive of Photography, selections from the Fairchild Photo Service, and signature cartoons from The New Yorker. Highlights of the new release include striking and…
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(23 May 2017) Think Check Submit is now available in Indonesian! The announcement is here.
More than 35,000 additional photojournalism images from Magnum Photos via ArtStor
(11 May 2017) Magnum Photos and Artstor are now sharing more than 35,000 additional images in the Digital Library, bringing the total to approximately 116,000 of the world’s most recognized photographs. The new release spans the globe from Alaska to the Amazon and Oman to the Arctic Circle. Among the highlights are black and white…
The Center for Open Science releases another branded preprint service with LawArXiv
(8 May 2017) The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce that it has added another branded service to its open source preprints service, OSF Preprints. The new service, called LawArXiv, provides free, open access, open source archives for legal research. LawArXiv is an open access legal repository supported and maintained by members…
INASP Principles of responsible engagement for publishers
(8 May 2017) INASP works with publishers to enable affordable and sustainable access to online resources to developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. INASP works with national library consortia or equivalent bodies so that they can meet the information needs of their researchers. Read INASP principles online by clicking on the pdf file…
OpenAIRE survey: open peer review is moving mainstream
(3 May 2017) OpenAIRE today releases the results of its survey conducted in Autumn 2016, which gauged the views towards open peer review (OPR) of over 3,062 editors, authors and reviewers. The report, entitled OpenAIRE survey on open peer review: Attitudes and experience amongst editors, authors and reviewers shows that open peer review is moving mainstream,…