It's four months until the next Research Information event – Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle – and plans are progressing fast
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New ALPSP boss: academic publishing 'could return to non-profit'
18 July 2019
Academic publishing could be about to return to a not-for-profit enterprise
Liam Earney appointed JISC executive director for digital resources
11 July 2019
Jisc has appointed Liam Earney as executive director for digital resources. From 1 August, Earney will lead on a portfolio of services containing licensing, library, content, discovery and open access as well as Jisc’s provision of the UK Data Service.
Elsevier signs pilot agreement to serve Hungary
10 July 2019
Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ) and Elsevier have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Letter of Intent, as they move towards finalising a new innovative pilot agreement for research access and Open Access publishing in Hungary. As a result, EISZ consortium member institutions and their affiliated researchers across Hungary now have immediate access to ScienceDirect, as well as SciVal and Scopus.
OpenAthens launches new identity
10 July 2019
Single sign-on provider OpenAthens has launched a new user-centred identity, intended to embody the software providers’ mission to make access to knowledge easy for its customers and end users.
Meta and Kopernio partner to provide easy access to full-text scientific articles
10 July 2019
Millions of full-text scientific articles will soon be available through an easy copyright-compliant one-click process, thanks to a new partnership between Kopernio, part of the Web of Science Group and Meta, a free biomedical discovery tool from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Mark Carden
Researcher to Reader 2020 – call for papers
02 July 2019
The annual international scholarly communications conference, Researcher to Reader, will take place in London on 24 and 25 February 2020
Twin initiatives to help minorities
27 June 2019
Two projects aimed at furthering the prospects of BAME professionals in academia have been launched
Keeping an eye on the horizon
25 June 2019
Miles McNamee serves up some takeaways from HighWire’s digital disruption seminar
Nandita Quaderi
Web of Science promises 'huge improvements'
20 June 2019
Web of Science editor-in-chief Nandita Quaderi has hinted at 'huge improvements' in the company's products
Journal Citation Report 2019 update released
20 June 2019
The Journal Citation Report, released today, delivers new benefits to enhance users' understanding of journal performance and a 'rich array of publisher-independent data'
Elsevier facility to 'advance evaluation of research'
19 June 2019
Elsevier has launched a facility aimed at 'examining and advancing the evaluation of research across all fields of knowledge production
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Latest issue
Authors need to be reconnected to the library to make it the starting point for research, argues Robert Lisiecki
Earlier this year, the UK-based Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate Analytics, published a report called Profiles, not Metrics
Joe Tragert explains how to leverage discovery platforms as information literacy training tools
The mechanisms of scholarly communication are showing their age, writes Daniel Hook