Academic publishing could be about to return to a not-for-profit enterprise
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
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.
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.
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.
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
The annual international scholarly communications conference, Researcher to Reader, will take place in London on 24 and 25 February 2020
Two projects aimed at furthering the prospects of BAME professionals in academia have been launched
Miles McNamee serves up some takeaways from HighWire’s digital disruption seminar
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
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
