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Kudos and Editage partner to help researchers summarize work in plain language to enhance its discoverability

Data, Publishers, ToolsApril 20, 2017

(April 18, 2017, Philadelphia, U.S.) Kudos, the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, and Editage, the trusted scientific communications advisor to researchers worldwide, have partnered and announced the launch of a new co-branded website. Through this partnership, subject-matter experts from Editage will create plain language summaries to help broader audiences…

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A new approach to track impact and reach of over 120,000 OECD research outputs

Databases, Metadata, Publishers, ToolsApril 20, 2017

(18 April 2017, London, UK and Paris, France) Data science company Altmetric today announced a new pilot project with The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to track and report on the impact of over 120,000 articles, chapters, books, papers, tables, charts and statistical datasets in the OECD iLibrary. The OECD seeks to promote…

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73% of academics say access to research data helps them in their work; 34% do not publish their data

Metadata, Tools, UncategorizedApril 9, 2017

A new report published today by Elsevier and CWTS provides a benchmark overview of data sharing perceptions and practices among researchers (5 April 2017, Amsterdam/Leiden) Combining results from bibliometric analyses, a global sample of researcher opinions and case-study interviews, a new report reveals that although the benefits of open research data are well known, in practice,…

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Nominations sought for ORCID Elections 2018

Metadata, Publishers, ToolsApril 6, 2017

(5 April 2017) The ORCID Nominations Committee is now accepting recommendations for candidates to serve as Board members from 2018 – 2020. All ORCID members are eligible to have representatives serve as ORCID Directors. In addition, the Board is also seeking nominations for researchers, who need not be affiliated with an ORCID member to serve. Board…

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New product: Med Insight LT PALMs

Education, ToolsApril 4, 2017

(29 March 2017) PALMs, or Perceptual-Adaptive Learning Modules, from Med Insight LT are a revolutionary advanced learning technology using a patented combination of perceptual and adaptive sequencing based on both accuracy and speed of learners to improve learning and retention of information over regular didactic methods. PALMs will: Improve learning outcomes and long term retention of…

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Outcomes from Wikipedia’s #1Lib1Ref campaign 2017

Libraries, ToolsApril 4, 2017

(30 March 2017) What role does Wikipedia have in higher education, and how do research libraries contribute? Fiona Bradley, Deputy Executive Director, RLUK has blogged that several RLUK member libraries participated in Wikimedia’s flagship #1lib1ref campaign from 15 January-3 February 2017 to increase the number of citations on its articles; and others have hosted Wikimedians-in-residence…

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Karger Publishers partners with UNSILO machine learning for content enrichment

Publishers, Technology, ToolsMarch 24, 2017

(23 March 2017, Aarhus, Denmark) UNSILO and Karger Publishers signed an agreement to create a number of artificial intelligence-based content enrichment solutions for its growing range of digital biomedical content services. The new solutions will be based on UNSILO’s unique concept extraction engine, which uses machine learning to identify core concepts in scientific book chapters…

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Submissions invited for proposals to receive funding for projects to advance understanding of alternative research metrics

Data, Metadata, Technology, ToolsMarch 24, 2017

(22 March 2017, London, UK and Boston, USA) Data Science company Altmetric today announced that applications for its annual research grant are now open. First launched in 2016, the grant provides up to £1,500 ($1,900 USD) to fund research that facilitates the development and understanding of alternative research metrics (altmetrics) as part of the wider…

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Unpaywall due for release 4th April

Open Access, ToolsMarch 23, 2017

(22 March 2017) Get full-text of research papers as you browse, using Unpaywall’s index of ten million legal, open-access articles. Scholars upload their papers to free, legal servers online but getting links to them can be onerous. By using a browser extension, Unpaywall searches the web for the papers you want, bringing open access direct…

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Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science

Metadata, ToolsMarch 20, 2017

(16 March 2016) Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead. Anne-Wil Harzing, who developed the Publish or Perish software that uses Google Scholar data, sets out to challenge some of the misconceptions about this data source and explain why it offers…

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