German universities may lose access to Elsevier journals with still no sign of a deal to allow continued access
Around 200 German universities will lose their subscriptions to Elsevier journals within weeks, because negotiations have failed to end a long-term contract dispute.
The conflict between Elsevier, the world’s biggest publisher of scientific journals, and Germany’s entire university system has dragged on since 2015. Academics in the country lost access to Elsevier content briefly early this year, but it was later restored while contract talks resumed.
Advocates of open-access publishing worldwide say that victory for the German universities would be a major blow to conventional models of scientific publishing based on ...
Source: News from STM - December 7, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Collaboration surges as businesses outsource discovery to academia
New data from the Nature Index show that as corporations have scaled back their own in-house research, there has been a surge in collaboration withacademic and government research bodies, as they look to share the burden of scientific discovery.
These findings are featured in the Nature Index 2017 Science Inc. supplement, published today, which investigates corporate institutions’ changing role in science, how the academic research landscape is evolving as a result, and the costs and benefits of these shifting arrangements to high-quality research
Previous research has shown that the long-term decline in corporate scient...
Source: News from STM - December 7, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
37% of UK research outputs freely available immediately at the time of publication, says new report
This report, the second in a series commissioned by the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group, aims to build on previous findings, and to examine trends over the period since the major funders of research in the UK established new policies to promote open access.
The research was delivered by a partnership involving Research Consulting, the University of Sheffield and Elsevier, and was led by Jubb Consulting.
Key findings include:
More than half of UK-authored articles are made accessible for public view within 12 months, either through Gold or Green OA
37% of UK outputs (vs. 25% globally) are freely available...
Source: News from STM - December 7, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Collaboration surges as businesses outsource discovery to academia
New data from the Nature Index show that as corporations have scaled back their own in-house research, there has been a surge in collaboration withacademic and government research bodies, as they look to share the burden of scientific discovery.
These findings are featured in the Nature Index 2017 Science Inc. supplement, published today, which investigates corporate institutions’ changing role in science, how the academic research landscape is evolving as a result, and the costs and benefits of these shifting arrangements to high-quality research.
Previous research has shown that the long-term decline in corporate sci...
Source: News from STM - December 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Digital Science Portfolio Companies Symplectic and Figshare Offer New Integration to Improve Institutional Workflows
Today, technology companyDigital Science announced that two of its portfolio companies, research information management system provider Symplectic and data repository service Figshare, have launched a new integration, highlighting their continued commitment to ensuring researchers get credit for all of their academic work.
This next-generation integration will mean that research outputs deposited in either system can be automatically reflected in the other, saving researchers time and delivering valuable insights to institutional administrators.
This new integration will deliver immediate benefits to academic institut...
Source: News from STM - December 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Brill will appoint Jasmin Lange as Chief Publishing Officer
Koninklijke Brill NV, the international scholarly publisher, announces the appointment of Jasmin Lange (39) as Chief Publishing Officer and member of the Management Team, as per January 1st, 2018. Within Brill’s senior leadership, Jasmin will lead Brill’s publishing teams and focus on further expanding Brill’s offering to the scholarly community.
German-born Jasmin Lange joined Brill in 2011 as Assistant Editor and has worked as Business Development Manager since 2012. In this role, amongst others, she focused on developing Open Access within Brill, developing new business models and integrating newly acquired publis...
Source: News from STM - November 30, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Digital Science Report Reveals Potential Behind Blockchain Technology for Scholarly Communication and Research
This report zooms in on its potential to transform scholarly communication and research, focusing on important initiatives in this field. The report highlights how blockchain technology can touch many critical aspects of scholarly communication, such as transparency, open science, and reproducibility.
The report includes:
An introduction into “What is blockchain technology?”
A discussion around the challenges in scholarly communication including the reproducibility crisis, correctly assigning credit and the peer review process.
Thoughts on how blockchain technology can be applied to certain activities such as managing...
Source: News from STM - November 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Springer Nature continues to advance sharing
Over 3.25 million article shares in SharedIt’s first year
Articles have been successfully shared by authors, subscribers and media outlets over 3.25 million times during the first year of SharedIt, Springer Nature’s free content sharing initiative.
SharedIt was launched in October 2016 and covers over 2,700 journals including all the Springer Nature-owned portfolio and over 1,000 co-owned and partner-owned journals. This industry-leading initiative enables authors and subscribers to post links to free-to-read versions of research articles anywhere, including social media platforms, repositories, websites, scholarly col...
Source: News from STM - November 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
London Info International 2017 opens its doors in just one week.
We have an exciting 2 days in store this year, from 5th – 6th December. With delegates and visitors attending from all over the world here is a summary of just some of the things that can be found at the event.
WORLD CLASS EXHIBITORS from across the industry. See the best of scholarly, research and professional publishing, tools, technologies and service providers.
OPEN CONFERENCE STREAM is open to all visitors, not just paid conference attendees, and will run on both days. This is new for 2017 and includes sessions on Rights, Counter, Copyright, Text and Data Mining, Scientific Research and Education, Content and...
Source: News from STM - November 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Source Type: news
Springer Nature launches a pilot with PaperHive
Springer Nature has launched a one-year pilot with PaperHive, a market-leading annotation system and copyright-compliant collaborative research platform. The partnership focuses on increasing reader engagement of university students with academic literature in various fields including biomedicine, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. The pilot phase comprises books and textbooks from Springer and Springer Spektrum, the leading publisher for classical and digital educational media in the field of natural sciences and mathematics in the German-speaking region.
PaperHive’s annotation, group conversation and sharing capabili...
Source: News from STM - November 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
The University of Manchester chooses Kudos to maximize research visibility and impact
Kudos, the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced that the University of Manchester is the latest institution to sign up for Kudos for Institutions, which provides research tools and intelligence to help universities maximize dissemination of research.
Kudos is part of the University of Manchester Library’s “Beyond Compliance” initiative, which is exploring the feasibility of supporting authors beyond fulfilling the basic dissemination requirements expected by research funders, by implementing proactive, best-of-breed approaches to creating, broadening and tr...
Source: News from STM - November 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
London Info International 2017 conference opens its doors in just 2 weeks.
Confirming our latest opening keynote: 6th December
Danny Kingsley, Deputy Director of Scholarly Communication University Library, University of Cambridge, Head of Scholarly Communications, University of Cambridge
So did it work? Considering the impact of Finch 5 years on
Looking at different open access policies it becomes clear that the institutions and funders behind them ‘believe’ that open access will benefit research and society. With the publication of the Finch Report in 2012, the UK embarked on one of the most expensive open access experiments in the world with the RCUK Open Access Policy. This was with the g...
Source: News from STM - November 20, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Source Type: news
African Academy of Science to put its research on global stage with F1000 publishing platform
The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research, to enable AAS funded and affiliated researchers to publish immediately and without barriers. AAS Open Research will showcase African research on the global stage in an immediate and transparent way.
AAS Open Research will join a growing number of funder publication platforms, such as those operated on behalf of Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and soon Ireland’s Health Research Board. The platforms are based on a model developed by F1000Research, which uses immediate publication and tra...
Source: News from STM - November 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: World Source Type: news
Clarivate Analytics names the world ’s most impactful scientific researchers with the release of the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, today released its publication of its annual Highly Cited Researchers list. The citation analysis identifies the most frequently cited researchers as determined by the extent to which their papers have supported, influenced, inspired and challenged other researchers around the globe. It identifies authors who have consistently won peer approval from international researchers in the form of high citation counts.
For more than two decades the Web of Science has served as the basis for regular li...
Source: News from STM - November 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Enago Partners with Bioscientifica
Leading global STM provider Enago announced today a new partnership with Bioscientifica, a well-respected provider of publishing, events and association management services,owned by the Society for Endocrinology. Under this new collaboration, Enago’s high-quality English editing and publication support services will be offered to Bioscientifica’s global research community at a reduced price.
The aim of the partnership is to improve the quality of biomedical research papers submitted by authors, helping them to meet the stringent submission standards of international, high-impact journals. Those who access Enago’s ser...
Source: News from STM - November 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
