Institutes in the USA lead the way in terms of influencing innovation, according to a report by Nature
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Kudos has developed a light-hearted quiz for researchers to test their awareness and understanding of research impact, and compare themselves with other researchers
SSRN, the working paper repository and preprint server owned by Elsevier, has launched ChemRN – a chemistry research network
The Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) has awarded Kortext a global agreement for books, ebooks, standing orders and related materials.
Two popular online collaborative LaTeX editors, Overleaf and ShareLaTeX, have announced that they are joining forces
BBC Monitoring has joined the OpenAthens Federation, further expanding its single-sign-on options for universities and other international organisations
PaperHive has announced a collaboration with Ingenta, the provider of content solutions
CABI (the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) and SciDev.Net have agreed to merge
This webinar presented by Dr Jamil Salmi will look at how research universities are emerging as the central institutions of the 21st century knowledge economies
The London University research and teaching institution Birkbeck is set to investigate the workings of the academic peer review process
Kudos has announced a pilot program to help publishers prevent copyright infringement and reclaim lost usage from sharing of research articles on scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs)
RedLink has announced an exclusive representation agreement with Publisher Communication Group (PCG), an Ingenta company, for the North American region
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Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better, reports Rebecca Pool
Nigel Lee, CEO at Glasstree Academic Publishing, describes how he wants to transform scholarly communications
