Elsevier launches Mendeley Data to manage entire lifecycle of research data
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data.
With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.
The volume, complexity and fragmentation of research data has historically made it difficult for researchers and universities to have a clear, single overview of their data, its quality, and...
Source: News from STM - April 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Artificial Intelligence Hypothesis Validation Platform Sci.ai Wins Digital Science Catalyst Grant
Research industry technology company Digital Science has awarded the first Catalyst Grant of 2018 to a team from Romania aiming to accelerate the research process through their Artificial Intelligence Platform Sci.ai.
The team at Sci.ai have developed an Artificial Intelligence that uses natural language processing and concept extraction to allow for hypothesis validation – in effect, understanding research papers and explaining them to analytics and search algorithms. Researchers can use the platform to save hours of time spent on reading irrelevant results from search engines and research information databases.
“...
Source: News from STM - April 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting Focuses on Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 40th Annual Meeting will be held at the Sheraton Grand in Chicago, May 30-June1, 2018. The theme for this year’s meeting is Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here?
“Chicago has been the crossroads of America for over 150 years,” said Laura Ricci, co-chair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee. “Like the diverse influences that have fostered Chicago’s dynamic culture, scholarly publishing involves the blended efforts of a variety of stakeholders. This year’s 40th anniversary meeting will let us...
Source: News from STM - April 3, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Info International announces brand new conference – ConTech 2018
Transforming content through data science, AI and emerging technologies
Every organisation creating and managing content collects mountains of data, some valuable, some not. ConTech 2018 will examine where data science, content and technology come together.
At ConTech 2018 delegates will learn how a new generation of technology is impacting the world of content. Hear from the content pioneers who are already seeing the benefits of using data science, the data science visionaries who are building new content tools and understand how you can start applying data science to your own work – whether you are a publisher, conten...
Source: News from STM - March 28, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Featured Source Type: news
IntechOpen Announces Incoming CEO – Dr. Anke Beck
IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, announced today that Anke Beck, PhD, will join the company as incoming CEO. Dr. Beck joins IntechOpen with 20 years of publishing industry experience, most recently at De Gruyter.
“As scientists, we’ve lead IntechOpen’s growth to its current leading position in the Open Access Books market, and now, we are excited to join forces with Dr. Beck who, no doubt, will have an impact on our further expansion”, said Alex Lazinica, IntechOpen’s co-founder and CEO. “I am confident that Dr. Beck’s deep understanding of international scholarly commun...
Source: News from STM - March 26, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Cambridge University Press Announces New Home for Authors
Cambridge University Press (the Press) has today announced the expansion of Author Hub into a new, integrated online platform for book authors.
Since its launch in 2013, Author Hub has expanded to offer services for current and prospective authors spanning all three of the Press’s publishing groups – Academic, ELT and Education – to support them throughout the publishing process and offer an enhanced experience.
Authors have been involved in testing Author Hub throughout its development to ensure it serves their needs. The following services will be available on the platform:
Exclusive access to a wide range of ...
Source: News from STM - March 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Extending Publons ’ Reviewer Recognition Service to 250 Taylor & Francis Journals
Over 40,000 peer reviews for Taylor and Francis have been tracked after a successful pilot.
20th March 2018 – Today, the peer review platform Publons announced an extended partnership with Taylor & Francis following a successful pilot. Through Publons Reviewer Recognition Service, they will provide automated recognition to peer reviewers for up to 250 academic journals.
To-date, more than 18,500 peer reviewers have used the Publons platform to track over 58,000 peer reviews for Taylor & Francis journals. Over 70% of these reviews were added following the announcement of a 30-journal pilot in April 2017, show...
Source: News from STM - March 20, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Clarivate Analytics Welcomes Caroline Birkle as the New General Manager of Converis
Data company Clarivate Analytics has announced the appointment of Caroline Birkle as the General Manager of their leading research information management system, Converis. Converis supports universities, research institutions and funding agencies in collecting and managing data across the research life cycle. Birkle will join Converis on April 16th 2018, based in Karlsruhe, Germany and will manage an international team across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
Converis is part of Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation and is part...
Source: News from STM - March 15, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Peter Lang converts eleven journals to Open Access publications
As part of Peter Lang’s ongoing commitment to Open Access in academic publishing, the publisher today announced plans to transition eleven of its subscription-based scholarly journals to full open access. Free online access to articles from these journals will be available on the new Open Access platform IngentaOpen, starting with each journal’s first issue of 2018. All content will continue to undergo a robust peer review process. A liberal CC-BY license will be applied to published articles, unless otherwise requested by authors.
The journals taking part in this initiative are:
Mediaevistik
International Journ...
Source: News from STM - March 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial European Source Type: news
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft to grow open access publishing with IOP
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new pilot agreement to help grow the society’s participation in open access publishing.
The new Institutional Research Licence has been developed by IOP to enable institutions to manage the cost of hybrid article publication charges (APCs) against their journals licence fee, enabling institutions to support the participation of their researchers in open access publishing. IOP is working with MPG to develop systems and processes to support this new pilot.
The agreement covers hybrid APCs in qualifying journals, meaning corresponding authors from MPG w...
Source: News from STM - March 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Digital Science and Katalysis Lead Initiative to Explore Blockchain Technologies for Peer Review
Digital Science and Katalysis are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot project to test blockchain technologies to support the peer review process. They are joined in this pilot project by founding partner Springer Nature.
The problems of research reproducibility, recognition of reviewers and the rising burden of the review process, as research volumes increase each year, have led to a challenging landscape for scholarly communications.
In its initial phase, this initiative aims to look at practical solutions that leverage the distributed registry and smart contract elements of blockchain technologies. Later phases aim...
Source: News from STM - March 7, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
