EBSCO Information Services develops SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries to improve usage reportingEBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has developed a new resource to make harvesting COUNTER reports easier. The SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries (the R5 Harvester) is a Microsoft? Access? tool designed to help small to medium size consortia more easily gather COUNTER reports for their affiliated libraries.…
Read more Google set to launch ‘new news experience’ later this year; to pay publishers to license contentGoogle has announced that it will begin paying news publishers for ‘high-quality content’ with the launch of a ‘new news experience’ later this year. The move marks a major departure for Google, which has until now steadfastly refused to compensate news publishers for content. As news organisations’ digital advertising revenues…
Read more Peer Review Week 2020 to focus on trust in peer review through events and campaignsThis year’s Peer Review Week (PRW), a yearly event led by academic publishers and societies, as well as other scholarly organisations, is dedicated to “Trust in Peer Review.” During the week of September 21 - 25, participating organisations will highlight the critical role of peer review…
Read more
UCL COVID-19 Collection benefits authors, publishers, and usersThe global pandemic has elicited a resounding response from the academic community in terms of research regarding the novel coronavirus disease. From the onset, ScienceOpen has been working with publishers and researchers to create COVID-19 resources that help organise the massive amount of research being published.…
Read moreNew publishing model pins hopes on ‘unity of purpose’
Higher education leaders in South Africa are looking to move to a European model for open access (OA) publishing of scholarly articles as soon as possible, according to the body that coordinates the country’s public universities. The plan to move to the new model has been slammed as unduly expensive…
Expand your reach to global markets through AI-based localization
One of the challenges in content localization is capturing the subtleties of the original language (intonation, volume, etc ) that give the complete meaning of words. Without this, what is truly meant to be communicated may literally be “lost in translation”. With Emotion Mapping, different degrees of pitch, tone, volume…
Elsevier in China – a brief
Paul M. Evans, Vice President of Elsevier, China, has given a brief on the STM publishing industry, his company's proposed activities in China and ethical publishing standards.
The iPRES 2020, 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation, will be held in September 21-24, 2020, Beijing, China. The International Conference on Digital Preservation, or iPres Conference, is the premier conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004 there have been annual iPRES conferences around the globe to share their recent…
Read MoreSociety for Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP) 2020 host city of Boston inspired the concept of “revolution” in this year’s theme, and to explore a broad range of interpretations of this concept as they apply to the community. How will we as scholarly communication professionals reimagine ourselves to respond to the changes…
Read More
