Atypon Powers the Relaunch of Taylor & Francis Online with Responsive Design and Enhanced Discovery
Taylor & Francis has relaunched their journals platform Taylor & Francis Online with a new responsive, mobile-optimized design, a modern user interface and enhanced content discovery. The new site, designed to meet the expressed needs of Taylor & Francis’ readers and authors, is powered by Literatum, Atypon’s online publishing platform, which has been home to Taylor & Francis’ publications for five years. In addition to journals, the platform includes reference works and databases.
“Based on input from subscriber focus groups, our priorities were to simplify content discovery and maximize onsite rea...
Source: News from STM - August 15, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Copyright Clearance Center announces launch of RightFind Content Decision Support solution
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content technology company, has announced the launch of its cloud-based RightFind Content Decision Support (CDS), an easy-to-use analytics platform that helps information center managers leverage the power of usage data to make smart decisions around content investments.
RightFind CDS combines comprehensive usage and spend data, predictive analytics and data visualizations, and budget forecast and planning tools in a single solution designed to help information managers bring actionable intelligence to their content acquisition strategy.
Downward pressure on in...
Source: News from STM - August 11, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Wiley Announces Publishing Agreement with Amazon Web Services
John Wiley & Sons Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) (Wiley) today announced a publishing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring to market official certification study guide learning tools for the AWS Certification Program.
The AWS Certification Program recognizes IT professionals that possess the skills and technical knowledge necessary for building and maintaining applications and services on the AWS Cloud. To earn an AWS Certification, individuals must demonstrate their proficiency in a particular area by passing an AWS Certification Exam.
The AWS Official Study Guide helps prepare candidates for AWS Certification ...
Source: News from STM - August 10, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Plum ™ Analytics and ISTIC Collaborate to Establish a Joint Laboratory of Big Data Research and Discovery
The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) and Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company, have signed an agreement to build the ISTIC-EBSCO Joint Laboratory for Big Data Research and Discovery to promote the academic research of big data in China. Through this joint laboratory, both ISTIC and EBSCO can enhance academic communication and technology cooperation, as well as develop the basic concepts and technology practices of big data research and discovery.
The joint laboratory will provide Chinese researchers with a platform for academic communication and research collaboration, including vast resear...
Source: News from STM - August 10, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Baker & Taylor Launches Global Publishers Services
Baker & Taylor, the premier worldwide distributor of digital and print books and entertainment products, today announced the launch of Baker & Taylor Global Publishers Services (GPS) – a new business unit specializing in providing client publishers with international sales and marketing services, an industry leading speed to market supply chain and digital to print services.
The GPS model will offer tailored services to publishers whose content has a strong global audience and who recognize international sales as a strategically critical piece to their overall growth. Through GPS, publishers can reach multipl...
Source: News from STM - August 10, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Talis and Innovative Partner to Deliver Best-in-Class Solutions for Academic Libraries
Innovative Interfaces, a leading provider of library automation software that empowers libraries globally, has partnered with Talis to enhance the student experience and deliver superior workflow efficiencies around course reserves and reading list management for academic libraries.
This partnership will provide the framework for further integration between the Innovative and Talis Aspire solutions, and to seamlessly connect students and faculty with the library’s physical and digital collections for better academic results. As academic library requirements change—and new opportunities for library success within the ac...
Source: News from STM - August 9, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Publons and BMJ Open – Paying homage to the peer reviewers defending science!
Peer review keeps research credible. Without expert researchers defending the frontlines of science through peer review, plagiarism and pseudoscience would be rife. Publons cares about protecting research, so we’re making peer review worthwhile by showcasing the effort and expertise it takes to review.
Today, we’re proud to announce BMJ Open – one of the world’s premier open journals – has partnered with Publons to recognise the critical work their reviewers do defending science and research.
Publons enables you track, verify and showcase your reviewing and editing efforts across all of the world’s jour...
Source: News from STM - August 9, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Wiley provides free access to latest Zika research to coincide with events in Brazil
Wiley has made available all of its published Zika content on one sitewww.wiley.com/go/zika to coincide with events in Brazil, a territory that has seen increased cases of Zika Virus recently. Access will be freely available until 30 September. New research from medicine, entomology, obstetrics, neuroscience and more will be added to Wiley’s Zika page as it becomes available along with interactive content such as interviews, podcasts and videos, providing the latest updates on Zika virus.
Zika virus is transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes and has been linked to causing neurological complications in humans.
Recent Zi...
Source: News from STM - August 9, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Publishing industry remains confident post-Brexit
More than 70% of publishers remain committed to their business investment plans despite Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, a survey of UK publishing houses by the Publishers Association has found. The survey also identified key priorities for the industry going forward which included ensuring a strong government commitment to copyright and reducing VAT on epublications.
Key findings of the survey include:
The majority (73%) of respondents will not change their business’s investment plans following the Brexit vote while 2% plan to increase investment
Over a third (38%) said they wanted a strong commitment to...
Source: News from STM - August 5, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
ScienceOpen partners with Brill to help put Linguistics research into context
The research network ScienceOpen is pleased to announce a new partnership with Brill. Brill has been a major publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences for more than 300 years, and publishes more than 250 journals and 1000 books and reference works each year.
Sam Bruinsma, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Brill commented “Research published in our linguistics journals is not just of interest to specialists, but of relevance to humanists in fields such as anthropology, archaeology, classics, history or regional studies. By indexing articles in ScienceOpen we put our author’s research in a wider cont...
Source: News from STM - August 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Access-to-Own now available on ProQuest Ebook Central platform
ProQuest’s highly-anticipated Access-to-Own ebook acquisition model is now available, enabling libraries to offer access to diverse content while applying spending on short-term loans to title ownership. Access-to-Own empowers libraries to build quality ebook collections based on the real needs of their users.
The Access-to-Own model adds to the wide choice of flexible ebook acquisition options available on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform. Libraries can choose from a variety of access models or mix and match models to build ebook collections that best fit their patrons’ needs and maximize library budgets.
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Source: News from STM - August 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
ALPSP launches online workshop for those new to journals publishing
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has launched a new blended learning online workshop to help those new to international scholarly publishing. The course has been developed out of the existing Introduction to Journals Publishing course following feedback from ALPSP members.
Suzanne Kavanagh, Director of Marketing & Membership Services explained: “We recently conducted a survey with the membership to find out what their training and development priorities are. Respondents identified specialist publishing skills, including editorial and digital, and general business skills as key ...
Source: News from STM - August 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Adis launches new open access pharmacoeconomics journal
Adis, a leading global provider of drug information, is launching a new open access pharmacoeconomics journal, which will be added to their portfolio in 2017. Called PharmacoEconomics – Open, the new journal will focus on cost and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions. PharmacoEconomics – Open has the same co-editors as Adis’s flagship subscription journal in the field, PharmacoEconomics. With 30 years of professional publishing experience between them, the co-editors will ensure that this new journal becomes an essential source of information.
Co-Editor Christopher...
Source: News from STM - August 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Atmire acquires BioMed Central ’s Open Repository
Atmire NV has entered into an agreement to acquire Open Repository, BioMed Central’s repository service for academic institutions, charities, NGOs and research organisations.
Under the agreement, Atmire will take over management and support of all Open Repository customers effective from today. The acquisition adds to Atmire’s client base of institutions using DSpace (an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories) and allows BioMed Central to focus on its core business concerns.
There will be no break in service for Open Repository customers, who will now have...
Source: News from STM - August 1, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
PLOS and CRediT Document Comprehensive and Standardized Author Contributions
Our January update on author credit focused on how PLOS was moving forward with the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) for researcher identification. Starting with authors, that effort allows us to know and unambiguously credit who participated in the work being published and forms the base for plans to eventually provide credit to all participants in the research outputs ecosystem. Today’s update is about providing authors attribution for what they contributed. Specific and comprehensive attribution moves the needle for institutions’ and funders’ abilities to evaluate researchers based on the roles they play in publishe...
Source: News from STM - July 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
