LII announce a series of webinars – Creating and delivering value compliantly beyond traditional information delivery
LII is proud to present this first in a series of webinars.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:00 hours CEST / 14:00 hours BST / 9:00 hours EST
The way corporate scientists search, find and access information is constantly evolving. Join Carmen Burkhardt to learn how the Novartis Knowledge Center (NKC) uses an innovative approach to go beyond traditional information delivery, while remaining compliant.
Carmen Burkhardt is Head of the Novartis Knowledge Center Information Acquisition team & NKC Basel Site Head. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the area of corporate knowledge and information management. Carmen holds a d...
Source: News from STM - May 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Training & Webinars Source Type: news
A Global Movement Championing Science Wiley, Publishing Partners Engage to Support Science
This report, featuring contributions from the organizations mentioned above, will serve as a sustained resource for societies.
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Source: News from STM - May 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Atypon ’s Literatum Online Publishing Platform Now Supports CHORUS
Atypon’s Literatum, the professional and scholarly publishing industry’s most widely used online publishing platform, supports CHORUS and enables access while improving the discoverability of funded research.
CHORUS is a global non-profit organization committed to enabling sustainable, cost-effective, and transparent public access to content reporting on funded research. Using elements of the existing research infrastructure, such as standards and identifiers, combined with open APIs, CHORUS optimizes funder identification, content discovery and long-term accessibility, public accessibility monitoring, and dashboard re...
Source: News from STM - May 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Springer signs landmark eBooks agreement with ABES in France
Springer and ABES (agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur) have signed a groundbreaking national license which gives access to four complete eBook collections. The agreement entitles French researchers to use one of the world´s largest scientific and technical eBook collections, available on Springer’s platform SpringerLink.
The agreement provides access to over 33.000 eBook titles in Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Materials Science, and Engineering which have been published up to the year 2013 as part of Springer´s historical and contemporary collections. The national license includes...
Source: News from STM - May 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Peer Review 2030: New report looks to the future of peer review
A new report issued by BioMed Central and Digital Science concludes that in order to affect real, industry-wide improvements to the peer review process, publishers, researchers, funders and institutions need to be willing to experiment with different models, encourage more diversity in the reviewer pool, utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) and support training and mentoring for peer reviewers.
‘What might peer review look like in 2030?’ examines how peer review can be improved for future generations of academics and offers key recommendations to the academic community. The report is based on the lively and progr...
Source: News from STM - May 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Introduction to People Management for Publishing, 23 May 2017, Training, London
The first step in people management is often reported as the most challenging. This course aims to give newly appointed managers and those in their first year of managing one or two staff the core knowledge and basic tools to make it a truly rewarding experience. The course will be highly interactive and give participants the opportunity to share experience with peers. We will use case studies, based on real publishing scenarios, to help you further your understanding, and you’ll get to apply the tools that you have learnt throughout the day. Participants will also gain an insight into their own personal development prio...
Source: News from STM - April 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Training & Webinars Source Type: news
Understanding Copyright, 17 May 2017, Training, London
This course provides an essential introduction to copyright law and how it is used in practice. Delegates will gain an understanding of the legal publishing landscape, and be able to make sense of their own organization’s contracts and licences.
Tutors: Pippa Smart, PSP Consulting and Tim Ryan, Memery Crystal
https://www.alpsp.org/Events-Training/Understanding-Copyright/40225
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Source: News from STM - April 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Training & Webinars Source Type: news
Project Management for Publishing, 11 May 2017, Training, London
Projects are vital for all publishing organizations to move forward and implement change. Everyone gets involved in them. They may involve developing new products, new processes and systems, adopting new technologies, reaching new markets, acquiring new business, selecting new suppliers or improving existing processes. Projects are also challenging and often fail to achieve the desired results. This course provides those managing projects as well as those working on them with a template and many supporting tools that can be applied to all projects, large or small, to help ensure successful outcomes. It has a strong emphasi...
Source: News from STM - April 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Training & Webinars Source Type: news
PubFactory works with Altmetric to provide engagement insights
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 immediately enabling authors, readers, and editors to gather a more comprehensive view of the reach and influence of research.
Available now to publishers who host their content on the PubFactory platform, the Altmetric badge visualisations and associated details pages offer valuable additional context and a much more immediate source of feedback on how a publication has been received.
“Working with Altmetric makes sense a...
Source: News from STM - April 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning
Springer collaborates with one of Europe’s largest providers of free multimedia courses to offer authors, lecturers and students an enhanced teaching and learning experience
Springer is partnering with Federica Weblearning, which is an academic platform devoted to innovation, experimentation and the dissemination of multimedia distance learning. The collaboration allows authors and lecturers several options of preparing both a textbook and a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on a particular topic. This initiative allows Springer to further strengthen its expertise in textbook publishing, and offer its authors and custome...
Source: News from STM - April 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
New Senior Account Manager for London Info International
Info International has appointed Cathryn Baldanza as Senior Account Manager – London Info International. This is a new appointment and in this role Cathryn will take responsibility for new business campaigns, specific event initiatives and will help develop LII digital and social communications platforms.
Cathryn has a rich background in event and exhibitions sales, marketing and project management both here in the UK and overseas.
“This is part of our continued expansion and is a major appointment for us. We are delighted to have Cathryn on board. She is already having an impact on the work we are doing developing Lon...
Source: News from STM - April 20, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Source Type: news
Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and Recognition
PLOS, leading Open Access publisher, now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, together with persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods and practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts.
For PLOS, this is a step forward on commitments to address reproducibility and provide improved recognition and credit for all contributions to a work and complements the organization’s already robust data availability policy, requiring that data underlying the conclusions of an article be made available at the time of publication.
“We are ex...
Source: News from STM - April 19, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Atypon Triples Staff Size in Four Years and Now Hosts Over 40% of All Scholarly Journals
With the addition of its 330th employee in March, Atypon has officially tripled in size since 2013, adding 220 staff in four years. The largest technology company in the scholarly publishing industry, Atypon has been steadily expanding its teams to serve a growing customer base and support its continuous product development. The company is on track to exceed its hiring target of 100 more customer service and engineering staff in 2017.
The company’s organic growth supports the development of several new product features for Atypon’s Literatum, the industry’s most widely used online publishing platform. They include an...
Source: News from STM - April 12, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Source Type: news
QS partners with Enago to offer Manuscript Preparation and Author Education Services
QS today announced their partnership with Enago, a leading author service provider that specifically caters to the large section of the global research community for whom English is a second language (ESL).
QS Quacquarelli Symonds was founded in 1990 and has established itself as a leading global provider of specialist higher education and career information and solutions. QS activities span across 50 countries, working with over 2000 of the world’s leading higher education institutions. Enago is the trusted name in author services for the global research community. Since 2005, Enago worked with 100,000+ researchers ...
Source: News from STM - April 7, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
IFCU partners with Enago to offer Manuscript Preparation and Author Education Services
Enago, an internationally trusted name in author services for the global research community, has recently signed an agreement with the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), one of the world’s largest international alliances of universities. Comprising over 200 universities throughout the globe, IFCU facilitates research, partnership and exchange programmes between Catholic institutes of education. With this agreement, Enago will provide English editing services to researchers and scientists at IFCU member universities. The resulting collaboration will see IFCU recommending Enago’s services exclusive...
Source: News from STM - April 7, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
