10 easy ways to increase citation count
(20 April 2016) The American Journal Experts (AJE) proposes 10 easy ways how researchers can increase their citation count. The BPA blog has the Top 10.
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Nanjing University Library trials online seat reservation system for users
(18 April 2016) Nanjing University, in the capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, trialed a new system last week so that users of the library must reserve seats via the smartphone messaging app WeChat, sparking much public discussion among staff and students. Regulations say that during the trial students who want to reserve a seat…
ProQuest’s Pivot® automatic citation ingest from ORCID makes its funding recommendation engine more powerful
(15 April 2016, Ann Arbor, MI) ProQuest is enabling automated updates from ORCID to scholar profiles in its popular Pivot® research solution. Now, citations added or updated in a scholar’s ORCID profile will cascade near real time and seamlessly into their Pivot profile. Locating funding opportunities is an arduous task and securing research funding is…
Lulu Press challenges the economics of traditional academic publishing with the launch of Glass Tree Academic Publishing
(12 April 2016, Raleigh, NC) – Lulu, the world’s first and largest independent publisher, announced at the London Book Fair the launch of Glass Tree, an online publishing site dedicated to meeting the needs of academic and scholarly authors and communities. “The knowledge that academics can share with the world is of phenomenal consequence to society…
Library data & text mining
(9 April 2016) CAUL’s Quality & Assessment Advisory Committee (CQAAC) has compiled a list of resources on libraries and data mining. Definitions and examples of practice are drawn from the US, Canada, Australia (universities in particular) and others. A list of references point you in the direction of source material and current practice. A lot…
Traveling the Silk Road—by database
(31 March 2016) Researchers can explore the Silk Road the 21st-century way—via the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, which lists hundreds of thousands of places significant in art and cultural history The loose group of ancient trade routes known today as the Silk Road ran from eastern China to the Mediterranean and greatly affected everything…
NISO releases altmetrics definitions and use cases for public comment
(29 March 2016, Baltimore, MD) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on the draft Altmetrics Definitions and Use Cases document, NISO RP-25-201X-1. The draft is an output of the NISO Altmetrics Initiative, a two-phase project aiming to address limitations and gaps that may hinder the adoption of altmetrics, an expansion of tools available…
GRAFT search tool updated
(28 March 2016) JURN’s GRAFT search tool has updated. Now searching across 4,644 repositories, fulltext and records alike, using a Google Custom Search, GRAFT uses a unique source list of URLs that has been thoroughly de-duplicated, cleaned and tested for viability. The announcement is here.
Figshare launches collections – a “Pinterest” for academic research outputs
(24 March 2016) Figshare, has launched Collections, which offers the research community, including publishers and funders, a “Pinterest” for academic research outputs. It enables users to gather any data types on Figshare including video, posters and code, whether public or private to give it new context. As researchers have access to increasing volumes of data,…
Largest ever study published into How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications
(23 March 2016) Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner announced today the publication of their second major report into discoverability of online content. Published under a CC-BY NC licence the report can be downloaded from their website at http://sic.pub/discover This report is the output of a large-scale survey focussing on journal and book content discovery conducted…