(23 February 2015) With the advent of the internet era and online academic publishing, the way how scholars communicate and how their impact is measured is undergoing radical evolution. Traditional citation-based metrics, such as impact factor or h-index, are being increasingly complemented by alternative metrics, or altmetrics, which measure online attention received by a given article…
(23 February 2015, Baltimore, MD) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper, The Future of Library Resource Discovery, written by independent consultant, speaker, and author Marshall Breeding. The white paper was commissioned by NISO’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) Topic Committee as part of its ongoing examination of areas in the discovery…
(13 February 2015) The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) has selected the Summon service to better support the patrons of Chinese Academy of Sciences with an integrated resource discovery platform. This integrated resource platform has been built in NSLC, which used the Summon service API model, and integrated with local…
(6 February 2015) Four out of ten Nepali women will never visit a doctor during pregnancy. One in 200 will die in childbirth. In response to those staggering statistics, READ’s Jhuwani Community Library launched a prenatal health program using a mobile app to help save the lives of mothers and their infants. The app, designed…
(10 February 2015) What are altmetrics? Altmetric (the company) defines them as alternative metrics, or indicators of impact and engagement that extend far beyond traditional methods of influence measurement. Whereas to date academics and those involved in scholarly communication have looked primarily to impact factors and citation counts to assess the success of a piece…
(4 February 2015) Altmetric has reported in its blog that it has added Wikipedia to sources it tracks. Mentions of articles in Wikipedia will be reflected in a new ‘Wikipeda’ tab on the Altmetrics details page. To find out how it works visit the illustrated blog post here.
(29 January 2015) ReadCube has announced that Maney Publishing, an independent publisher of over 170 peer-reviewed journals, has partnered with ReadCube to make its collection enhanced and discoverable across ReadCube’s web, desktop and mobile apps. All articles from Maney Publishing will be readable in ReadCube’s signature “enhanced” reading interface, which includes helpful features such as hyperlinked…
(28 January 2015, Hong Kong) WizFolio, an online research collaboration tool for knowledge discovery, is now part of the iGroup (Asia Pacific) Ltd. Used world-wide by researchers and students, WizFolio helps to manage and share all types of information in a citation ready format including research papers, patents, documents, books, YouTube videos, web snippets and a…
(13 January 2015) The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has unveiled PubAg, a user-friendly search engine that gives the public enhanced access to research published by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. NAL is part of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). PubAg, which can be found at PubAg.nal.usda.gov, is a new portal for literature searches and…
(12 January 2015) OvidToday™ is the first journal iPad® app for Ovid® subscribers. Researchers can read their favorite journals from their library right on their iPad – at no extra charge. Visit the Ovid ResourceCenter for information including posters, banners, Tweets, email templates and more. Click here to download.
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