Springer Nature initatives support ORCID
28 April 2017
Springer Nature has launched two initiatives in support of ORCID, which gives researchers a unique, personal, persistent identifier that distinguishes them from every other researcher
Industry trends
PubFactory works with Altmetric
27 April 2017
Online publishing platform PubFactory has partnered with data science company Altmetric to provide real-time insights into the latest shares, mentions and engagement relating to individual publications
Data challenges for publishers – teams, tools and changes in the law
24 April 2017
Dealing with data is nothing new to scholarly publishers – but it was clear from a recent ALPSP event that it’s an ever-changing battlefield, reports Warren Clark
'Genuinely disruptive'
21 April 2017
Michael Upshall discusses the impact of machine learning on scholarly communications
A confused author’s views on copyright
19 April 2017
C B Lucas discusses the laborious problems of obtaining permission from publishers and authors to republish diagrams and photographs and suggests solutions
OECD and Altmetric commence impact pilot
18 April 2017
Data science company Altmetric has launched a pilot project with the OECD to track and report on the broader impacts of more than 120,000 articles, chapters, books, papers, tables, charts and statistical datasets in the OECD iLibrary
Course readings: an evolving landscape
13 April 2017
For many years now the ways in which students at higher education institutions have accessed their course readings has developed swiftly, writes David Duffield
RedLink and INASP announce partnership
11 April 2017
RedLink, RedLink Network, and INASP have announced a partnership designed to help make usage tools and credentials management available for INASP members.
As a first step, the Zimbabwe University Librarians Consortium (ZULC) will be joining RedLink Network and adopting RedLink’s Library Dashboard. The partnership is designed to provide access to these services to the full membership of INASP libraries.
Sage and Bath University to create Public Data Lab
7 April 2017
Sage Publishing has teamed up with the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, to establish a Public Data Lab
Smartsourcing, not outsourcing!
28 March 2017
Lorraine Ellery reports back from an ‘outsourcing challenges’ workshop that she moderated at the recent Research to Reader conference in London
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