Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, 'hard' has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter has become the first European university to purchase Adam Matthew's entire digital primary source portfolio of more than 100 modules
ProQuest has launched the first product in its ProQuest One initiative
Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning
Elsevier has announced the launch of Entellect, a new cloud-based data platform
Copyright Clearance Center has announced the release of RightFind Insight, a scientific research solution
Digital Science has launched Dimensions, a new platform that aims to democratise and transform scholarly search
Cambridge University Press is launching a content sharing service – Cambridge Core Share – aimed at providing the academic community and wider public with greater access to research.
The new service has been launched on the Cambridge Core platform and will extend the functionality to a select number of journals during an initial pilot phase.
ProQuest is adding 24 primary sources to its offering through the Jisc Digital archival collections group purchasing pilot, following the adoption of its databases by 20 universities
O’Reilly Media’s new version of Safari: O’Reilly’s Learning Platform for Higher Education is now available from ProQuest
Faye Holst
Two librarians from the National Library of Scotland share their experiences with Faye Holst
A crisis requires rapid decision-making, and keeping record of these decisions becomes more important, says William Kilbride
Paul Stokes
Deciding to do nothing about preservation could be a disaster, says Paul Stokes
Julia Peregudova
The Russian Federation has declared 2021 as a year of Science and Technology – which predicts an increase in the sphere of scientific publications, writes Julia Peregudova
There is no easy answer, but some routes through the maze are becoming visible, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
More than 120 delegates from an array of institutions and countries around the world joined the organisers of CISPC for the first virtual version of the event.
