AI ‘has potential to revolutionise life sciences’ – Pistoia Alliance
Some 44 per cent of life science professionals are using or experimenting with AI and deep learning, while 94 per cent expect an increase…
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Springer Nature platform now holds a billion metadata statements
SciGraph, the linked open data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March, now holds more one billion metadata statements about content published by…
Altmetric releases Top 100 research articles
The 2017 Altmetric Top 100 has been released – with the top article of the year being named as research debunking the commonly-held belief…
Study shows global diversity of OA book readers
Digital books are being used by an increasingly diverse readership, according to a report from Knowledge Unlatched Research
Artificially creating articles
Some 99 drafts of scientific papers have been generated so far by a manuscript writer launched three weeks ago, according to the electronic lab…
Digital Science releases ‘blockchain’ report
Digital Science has released a report titled: Blockchain for Research – Perspectives on a New Paradigm for Scholarly Communication
Researchers ‘overwhelmingly’ say Brexit effect will be negative
Brexit will have a negative impact on the research sector – while access to funding, free movement for researchers, and international collaboration are researchers’…
Insight and recommendations for the scholarly publishing community
A new report, commissioned by Research Information magazine and published on 4 December, gathers together opinions on and recommendations for potential improvements in the…
Harvard tops Clarivate 2017 citation list
Harvard University has been named as the institution producing the highest number of cited researchers, with the USA leading the global list in terms…
New report warns of a ‘failing system’ in scholarly publishing
A new report, commissioned by Research Information, has asked publishers, librarians and researchers about challenges in the scholarly publishing cycle - and the answers…
‘Tangible benefits to OA books’ – Springer Nature report
There are clear benefits to publishing academic books using immediate, or ‘gold’, open access (OA) models, according to a report from Springer Nature.
Kortext accepted onto Jisc purchasing service
Kortext has been accepted onto the new Jisc Learning Analytics Purchasing Service as a supplier for Learning Analytics Solutions, Services and Infrastructure