Annual Report from Figshare Released: The State of Open Data 2017 Looks at Global Attitudes Towards Open Data
This report is the second in the series and includes survey results and a collection of articles from global industry experts, as well as a foreword from Jean-Claude Burgelman, Head of Unit Open Data Policies and Science Cloud at the European Commission.
In order to effectively examine attitudes and experiences of researchers working with open data – sharing it, reusing it, redistributing it – in 2016 Figshare released their first report collating findings of a survey undertaken in partnership with Springer Nature. The survey results, outlined in an article ‘Open Season for Open Data’, showed that open data...
Source: News from STM - October 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Medical Online Content Sales to Surpass Books in 2018
Steep declines in medical books and the rise of dynamic online content combine for a sea change in medical publishing — original online content in the form of products like electronic clinical references, drug databases and training tools will overtake books as the No. 2 sales producing publishing activity in 2018.
Global Medical Publishing 2017-2021, the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information, concludes that online content continues to grow faster than all other channels — faster than the largest category journals and much faster than books.
At the publisher level, medical onl...
Source: News from STM - October 20, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Wiley Announces Brian A. Napack as President and CEO
John Wiley and Sons, Inc. today announced that Brian A. Napack has been named its new President and CEO, effective December 4. Mr. Napack succeeds Matthew Kissner, who has served as interim CEO since May of 2017. Mr. Kissner, a 14-year veteran of Wiley’s Board of Directors, will remain as Chairman.
“I am delighted to introduce Brian Napack as the 14th CEO in Wiley’s proud 210-year history of empowering discovery, advancement, and learning,” said Mr. Kissner. “After a thorough and thoughtful search, the Board of Directors unanimously agreed on Brian as the type of proven leader that can drive our continuous e...
Source: News from STM - October 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Wiley Announces Ella Balagula as New EVP of Publishing Business
John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWA) (NYSE: JWB), a global research and learning company, today announced that Ella Balagula has been named Wiley’s new Executive Vice President of Wiley’s Publishing segment.
Prior to joining Wiley, Ms. Balagula was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Engineering Solutions at Elsevier, one of the world’s largest providers of scientific, medical, and technology information, where she was responsible for commercial go-to-market, product management, software development and content acquisition and production in the engineering and academic segments. Ms. Balagula also served as ...
Source: News from STM - October 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Taylor & Francis Partner with ReadCube on Highly-Successful Share More Easily Book Pilot
Taylor & Francis Group, a leading publisher of specialist academic books and journals and part of Informa PLC, has completed a successful pilot of its Share More Easily program in partnership with ReadCube, a Digital Science technology company.
Launched in June 2017, the program was designed specifically to support Taylor & Francis’ book authors and offered special sharing links to free-to-read full-text versions of their complete books. These links could then be easily shared across social media, scholarly collaboration networks, or emailed to those in their network – opening new channels to promote visi...
Source: News from STM - October 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Royal Society of Chemistry to sell Biochemical Society journals
The Royal Society of Chemistry and Portland Press, the wholly-owned publishing arm of the Biochemical Society, have agreed a partnership enabling the Royal Society of Chemistry to sell Portland Press journals content.
Speaking from the Frankfurt Book Fair, our commercial director, Dan Dyer said: “I am excited by the opportunities this announcement presents to both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Biochemical Society.”
“With the strategic alliance of the two societies, our customers will benefit by having a single sales contact to discuss all their chemistry and biochemistry content requirements.R...
Source: News from STM - October 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
OpenAthens builds upon its global access tools for digital content providers through its new cloud-based single sign-on solution
OpenAthens, the international identity and access management software provider for the information industry, today officially launches its cloud-based content provider solution at one of the world’s largest publishing events, the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Content providers no longer need to wrestle with the frustrations of implementing and maintaining complex access management applications based on SAML. OpenAthens Cloud enables federated single sign-on via OpenID Connect: a standard protocol for the secure, lightweight transfer of authentication and user attributes, which has seen rapid adoption by global brands such as Goog...
Source: News from STM - October 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Taylor & Francis Adds 6,000 Ebooks to Academic Complete ®
ProQuest has added 6,000 ebooks from Taylor & Francis to the Academic Complete® collection. Focused on offering a balance of quality and quantity, the pioneering subscription now offers unlimited, multi-user access to a growing selection of more than 150,000 ebooks from the world’s leading publishers.
“Teamwork with ProQuest enables us to maximize access to content that’s critical to academic libraries and their users,” said Christoph Chesher, Taylor & Francis Group Sales Director.
“Taylor & Francis and ProQuest have enjoyed a long and productive relationship because of our shared commitment to co...
Source: News from STM - October 16, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
ResearchGate and Springer Nature plan cooperation
ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights. The companies are cautiously optimistic that a solution can be found, and we invite other publishers and societies to join the talks.
About Springer Nature
Springer Nature advances discovery by publishing robust and insightful research, supporting the development of new areas of knowledge, making ideas and information accessible around the world, and leading the way on open access. Key to this is our ability to ...
Source: News from STM - October 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
BMJ to use River Valley ’s ReView for their new Open Science journal
BMJ, a leading medical knowledge provider, has adopted ReView, River Valley’s submission and peer review system, for BMJ Open Science ( http://openscience.bmj.com ) The new journal applies open science principles to preclinical research, and incorporates several innovative features in peer review.
Transparency and reproducibility are at the heart of BMJ Open Science . Not only are reviews published alongside accepted manuscripts, but even the discussions between reviewers are open to the public! This “extreme” openness is possible thanks to ReView’s flexible “discussion module” that is available to editors and ...
Source: News from STM - October 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
The Journal of Comorbidity confirms new affiliation with the North American Primary Care Research Group
The Journal of Comorbidity (JOC) and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) announce a new partnership to support and enhance the development and dissemination of knowledge, ideas and research on comorbidity and multimorbidity.
“A partnership between NAPCRG and JOC will accelerate the publication of outstanding research and extend the growing network of academic primary care professionals with an interest in multiple chronic conditions,” said Dr. Tom Vansaghi, Executive Director, NAPCRG. “We look forward to working closely with JOC to enhance even further the recognition of the journal and to offer o...
Source: News from STM - October 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
Exciting New Partnership: the Journal of Comorbidity affiliates with the Scottish School of Primary Care
The Journal of Comorbidity (JOC), published by Swiss Medical Press, is pleased to announce a new affiliation with the Scottish School of Primary Care (SSPC). The partnership is a key step in strengthening collaborations and enhancing opportunities among primary care professionals with an interest in comorbidity and multimorbidity.
“The partnership with JOC is a very important step forward for the schools’ strategy of international engagement and academic dissemination,” commented Professor Stewart Mercer, Director of SSPC and Co-Editor-in-Chief of JOC. “Multimorbidity underpins the two large problems facing Scotlan...
Source: News from STM - October 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
Stanford, MIT and Harvard top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities
Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world’s most innovative universities. The Reuters Top 100 aims to identify and rank the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and power new markets and industries. Compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, the ranking is based on proprietary data and analysis of numerous indicators including patent filings and research paper citations.
The most innovative university in the world, for the third consecutive year, is Stanford Universi...
Source: News from STM - September 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
EBSCO Information Services Releases Serials Price Projection Report for 2018
The 2018 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is now available. The report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of five to six percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projections based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data to assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the renewals season.
The Serials Price Projection Report looks at market dynamics highlighting many issues that have d...
Source: News from STM - September 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Clarivate Analytics 2017 State of Innovation report shows that global innovation is growing, but at a slower rate
According to the 2017 State of Innovation Report: The Relentless Desire to Advance, released today, analysis of year-over-year research and patent activity across 12 key industries shows that the growth rate has slowed in 2016. Patent volume is still on an upward trajectory, with over 2.6 million published patents in 2016. This indicates that global corporations, universities, government agencies and research institutions are continuing to relentlessly contribute new solutions to address the world’s biggest problems.
The eighth annual study from Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insight...
Source: News from STM - September 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
