Tech

Researcher, the mobile app for research discovery, registered its millionth user just under 18 months after its launch. The key to its success has been reimagining how academic content should be organised and displayed in order to support researchers in staying on top of the most current research in their chosen field.

Students can now immerse themselves in their studies through the power of virtual reality. Today, ProQuest announced the launch of virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree viewing functionality for select videos on the ProQuest search platform,as well as in ProQuest One™ Academic and on the newly redesigned Alexander Street video interface. ProQuest is the first academic streaming video platform to offer VR and 360-degree video.

ResearchFish, the research impact assessment platform provider, today announced an integration with Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management.

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) today announced the launch of a fully redesigned web delivery platform (pubs.acs.org). This platform delivers global access to all ACS journals and books, as well as to the C&ENGlobal Enterprise edition.

This week, Research Square launches a unique new pre-publication platform, also called Research Square. Following the success of the In Review service, which launched in October 2018 in partnership with Springer Nature, researchers can now post their manuscript directly to the platform as a preprint and gain early feedback from the scientific community.

At the first ever ConTech conference, held last year in London, delegates were given ground-breaking insights into the biggest technical revolution to hit the content world since the birth of the internet – the intersection of data science and content.

Aptara has partnered with SAGE Publishing to provide an integrated SAGE-branded online platform to collect open access (OA) Creative Commons licenses and article processing charges.

Digital Science and Hindawi Limited are pleased to announce an agreement that will provide Dimensions Analytics and API to Hindawi staff members. Dimensions enables publishers to delve into a breadth of data and metrics to perform invaluable analyses and translate them into actionable business intelligence.

New interface greatly expands value to local users and helps to accelerate innovation in the fastest emerging market for the bio-pharmaceutical industry

Aries Systems and Allen Press are pleased to announce the expansion of an existing partnership and licensing agreement which will make Editorial Manager® the exclusive peer review system powering Allen Press’ PeerTrack™.

(LM), a leading international provider of subscription and information management services, has today announced the launch of LibMetrix, a brand new, comprehensive usage analytics tool for libraries and other information centres. LibMetrix empowers librarians’ collection decisions by providing deep insight into how their content is being utilised by patrons.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, and Good for Kids, a healthy eating and activity program led by the New South Wales Government’s Hunter New England Population Health, have announced the launch of the first Kudos Pro “project profile”.