Databases

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

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