Publishing platforms

Atypon has added enhancements to Literatum, the online publishing platform for the professional and scholarly publishing industry.

Atypon’s universal content type technology, known as Digital Objects, assigns a DOI (digital object identifier) to any type of content or media, including blogs, news articles, videos, images, and interactive visualisations. Each digital object can then be tagged, indexed, packaged, targeted, promoted, bundled, and sold as easily as traditional content types like journal articles and book chapters.

Scientific publisher CABI has launched Open Books, supporting authors and collaborating organisations wishing to publish open access books

RightsLink from Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a robust web-based service designed to assist publishers in the collection and management of their article processing charges (APCs) and other author or publication-related fees pre- and post-publication.

Library software provider SirsiDynix has collaborated with the Copyright Licensing Agency in the development of its Digital Content Store

Sage and Expert System have released Sage Recommends, a discovery capability within the Sage Knowledge platform that provides users with links to related Sage content to support academic research

EBSCO Information Services has introduced an information resource for researchers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries

ProQuest has rolled out of its next local language portal. The latest in this initiative is for the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America and follows the launch of the Portuguese portal last month

Described as a vital tool for the newly promoted research leader, SAGE has released The Handbook of Research Management, a resource to guide researchers making the transition from individual scholars to managers and leaders

Publishing Technology has announced the launch of IngentaDrive; a packaged online solution aimed at allowing publishers to go live with fully branded, hosted online platforms within just weeks

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