Industry trends

The 50 most influential higher education (HE) professionals using social media in the UK have been named

Information solutions provider ProQuest has agreed to acquire Ex Libris Group, a provider of library automation solutions

The open access publisher BioMed Central is the first publisher to pilot a new system which clearly shows exactly how each researcher contributed to any given scientific article

Overleaf has announced that IEEE has integrated the Overleaf online LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing tool into IEEE Collabratec, its professional networking and collaboration platform

New campaign aims to help researchers to make informed publication choices

Altmetric and Publishing Technology have launched a partnership that will enable publishers hosting content on the ingentaconnect platform to embed Altmetric badges onto their article pages, giving greater visibility of online impact data for their titles

Research that informs sustainable development is experiencing a surge as innovative ways to preserve environmental health and safeguard societal well-being top global leaders' agendas, a report by Elsevier and SciDev.Net shows