GRID’s extensive database of over 63,000 organisations associated with research is now available as Open Linked Data (15 August 2016) Digital Science’s Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is now available as RDF, joining a wide range of other prestigious data sources on the web of data. By using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to describe…
(10 August 2016, Danvers, Mass.) Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content technology company, has announced the launch of its cloud-based RightFind™ Content Decision Support (CDS), an easy-to-use analytics platform that helps information center managers leverage the power of usage data to make smart decisions around content investments. RightFind CDS combines comprehensive…
(12 August 2016) Springer Nature teaming up with Publons in a 12-month pilot to revive peer review and speed up science. Peer review matters. Expert peer review improves the work of others and protects the world from harmful science that can set back advances in human understanding by decades. Springer Nature, like Publons, are committed…
(11 August 2016) New Zealand is joining the wave of countries to support and adopt ORCID. On July 26 New Zealand’s peak bodies representing the scientific and research community, along with funding agencies, released a joint statement of principle supporting the adoption and use of ORCID identifiers across the research and science system. The statement…
(1 August 2016, Dallas, Texas) ExamSoft Worldwide, an embedded-assessment software company based in Dallas, Texas, has partnered with the iGroup (Asia Pacific) Ltd to bring its leading testing analytics platform to the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to provide academic support to leading educational institutions. ExamSoft’s unique assessment software not only enables academic institutions to deliver secure,…
(29 July 2016, Redwood City, CA) Building on the success of Impact Vizor and extensive feedback from the publishing community, HighWire Press today launches Usage Vizor, a new visual analytics and reporting tool for publishers. Designed to provide publishers with insights into how research is being used at both the article- and category-level, Usage Vizor…
(28 July 2016) SAGE Publishing has launched a new platform for the SAGE Research Methods suite of products. The design of the new site was developed alongside student, academic and librarian user communities to improve discovery and user experiences and to allow users to get to the content they need more quickly. Now live, the…
(25 July 2016) John Sack of the HighWire Press adds to the ‘impact’ debate by describing “resonance”. He notes that resonance facets include: research resonance – which readers largely agree is legitimately measured by citations; reader resonance – which can be measured by usage (downloads or views, for example) or some scholarly altmetrics; societal resonance – which can be…
(25 July 2016) EEWOWW has announced the new integration with Google Drive and Dropbox. The integration allows users to access and work on documents stored in Google Drive and Dropbox directly from within the EEWOWW platform. With a few clicks in EEWOWW, users can view and work on documents stored in Google Drive/ Dropbox while…
(30 June 2016) Countries of LibQUAL+ARL invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+® by registering for the 2017 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a tool that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. The protocol is a rigorously tested web survey that helps libraries assess and…
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