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Thomson Reuters breaks new ground in journal evaluation with release of 40th annual Journal Citation Reports

Publishers, ToolsJune 23, 2015

Enhancements, including new metrics from the father of bibliometrics: Dr. Eugene Garfield, offer comprehensive view of journal performance and evolving trends like open access (18 June 2015, Alexandria, VA) The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, is changing the face of scholarly…

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2014 Journal Impact Factors

ToolsJune 21, 2015

(18 June 2015) The 2014 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) was released 18 June 2015. In an article for the scholarly kitchen, Phil Davis comments on the Journal Impact Factor noting that 272 journals will receive their first Impact Factor. He also describes two new complementary calculations: the JIF Percentile and the Normalized…

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AVPreserve releases MDQC version 0.3 update

Metadata, Technology, ToolsJune 17, 2015

(15 June 2015) AVPreserve has released version 0.3 of its free MDQC tool. MDQC (Metadata Quality Control) is an open source utility that reads the embedded metadata of a file or directory and compares it against a set of rules for file specifications that are defined by the user for a specific file type. For…

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Boopsie launches Ratings and Reviews on its mobile platform to increase libraries’ engagement with users

ToolsJune 12, 2015

(10 June 2015, Sunnyvale, CA) Boopsie, Inc., the leading mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide, continues to enhance its user-friendly mobile apps with Ratings and Reviews, the newest addition to its mobile platform. Along with accessing high quality resources on the user-friendly Boopsie app interface, users can now leave a 1-5 star rating and review…

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Advice from a librarian: how to do successful altmetrics outreach

ToolsJune 11, 2015

(10 June 2015) Heather Coates guest writes in the Altmetric blog about successful altmetrics outreach. She is a tenure-track librarian, a practitioner-researcher, who needs to know how the scholarly ecosystem works. In practice this needs an understanding of how scholarly products are created, disseminated, used, curated, and evaluated. The article covers helping faculty make strategic…

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Who’s talking about research? Taylor & Francis Group adds Altmetric to their journals platform

Publishers, ToolsMay 31, 2015

(30 May 2015) Taylor & Francis Group today announced the addition of Altmetric data to Taylor & Francis Online and Cogent OA, enhancing the article metrics currently available on both journal platforms. Added to all journal articles published since January 2012, Altmetric data will offer users a more complete picture of how people are engaging…

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ACS Publications introduces new mobile delivery capabilities that expand access to published research

eJournals, Technology, ToolsMay 29, 2015

(27 May 2015, Washington) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has introduced ACS2Go, a new mobile content delivery capability that enriches the reading and browsing experience for global readers of the Society’s portfolio of 47 preeminent peer-reviewed research journals. Mobile pairing technology provides authorized users from subscribing institutions with on-the-go access to…

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F1000 and ORCID partner to launch standard for citing peer review activities

ToolsMay 19, 2015

(18 May 2015) ORCID and F1000 have partnered to develop a practical means to cite peer review activities, based on a standard set of terms and the use of persistent identifiers. “The formal but completely transparent peer review process post-publication used on both the F1000Prime article recommendation service and on articles published in F1000Research provides…

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Announcing the new Open Data Handbook

Data, ToolsMay 15, 2015

(13 May 2015) The Open Data Handbook has been updated. The premier guide for open data newcomers and veterans alike was originally published in 2012. It was written by expert members of the open data community and has been translated into over 18 languages. The handbook is targeted at a broad audience. It aims to…

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Data visualization webcast videos now online

Data, ToolsMay 13, 2015

(11 May 2015) Data visualization brings library stories to life. Using Tableau software, libraries may better harness, analyze, and report their data to internal and external stakeholders. Video recordings of ARL’s recent web series on data management and visualization with Tableau are freely available on ARL’s YouTube channel. The announcement is here.

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