SAGE has launched the Journal of International Life Sciences Research, an open access journal dedicated to the rapid publication of high-quality articles in the form of life sciences research and review papers
Linguamatics is expanding its natural language processing-based text mining platform I2E to include easier access to full-text articles, with the integration of Copyright Clearance Center's new text mining solution, RightFind XML for Mining
The Society for General Microbiology has launched a publishing platform that brings together all of the scholarly content published by the Society's six peer-reviewed journals
EBSCO Information Services has released Chinese Insight, a full-text database that provides coverage of a wide range of predominantly Chinese-language journals
Nature Publishing Group is partnering with the Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, to publish NPJ Genomic Medicine
Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books
Springer partners with the Universita degli Studi di Palermo
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution launches
Human Genome Variation to launch
EMBO Press to launch on HighWire Open Platform
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
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Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
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Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
