The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has released Research Fronts 2014: 100 Top Ranked Specialties in the Sciences and Social Sciences, an annual report identifying prominent areas of scientific research over the past year
ProQuest has named Kristi Marchbanks as its senior vice president for global sales, marketing and customer experience. In her new role, Marchbanks will lead the development and execution of innovative go-to-market strategies across the ProQuest enterprise
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has reviewed the 100 academic papers receiving the most online attention in 2014, and the conversations happening around them
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Times Higher Education to power the latter’s BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings
EBSCO information Services and EasyBib have collaborated to make it possible to directly export citations from EBSCO resources to EasyBib
Organisers of the inaugural London Info International say they are delighted with the reaction the event, and are already busy planning next year's show
Jisc has launched registration for its 2015 Digital Festival with Simon Nelson, chief executive of FutureLearn being confirmed as one of four keynote speakers
Augmented reality glasses, virtual reality goggles, and data and analytics that personalise education and drive businesses success will all be under discussion at Online Educa Berlin (OEB) next week
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, head of data and HSS publishing in the Open Research team, and Amy Bourke, corporate communications manager at Nature Publishing Group, report on the first research data conference for early career researchers hosted by Scientific Data and Nature Publishing Group
The cost to research organisations of making the transition to open access has so far been the object of little attention, says Rob Johnson of Research Consulting
