Tech

More than 34,000 ebooks from Project MUSE, focused on humanities and social sciences, are now available for title-by-title purchase in the OASIS® platform. These Project MUSE ebooks are all digital rights management (DRM)-free – which means users can access them from any personal device or reader without download, print or copy/paste restrictions.

We’re proud to announce that from today customers of ‘Figshare for Institutions’ and ‘Figshare for Publishers’ will now be able to host content on a custom domain. Figshare portals have historically lived on a Figshare subdomain eg. university.figshare.com but now can be hosted anywhere eg. data.publisher.com, data.institution.edu, theworldscoolestdata.com.

BioOne (about.BioOne.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, has launched a new website for its content aggregation, BioOne Complete. Powered by a nonprofit collaboration with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, the new site leverages SPIE’s proprietary platform for the benefit of BioOne’s more than 4,000 accessing libraries and millions of researchers around the world.

Digital Science and ICE Publishing announce a recent integration that allows for the display of Dimensions Badges within the ICE Virtual Library. The badges provide an innovative way to visualize citations and view interlinked performance metrics drawing from the data within Dimensions.

We are thrilled to tell you that EmeraldOpen Research, our new open access platform, is now open for submissions.

Data science company and alternative metrics provider Altmetric today announced that its data have been integrated into Meta, allowing users of the platform to gain quick insights into how the community is sharing and discussing published research.

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced the launch of Entellect, a new cloud-based data platform designed to help life sciences companies overcome the challenges of modern R&D by enriching and harmonizing proprietary and external data and delivering it in an AI-ready environment.

DataSalon’s new Publisher Dashboard service provides Wiley’s staff with instant insights into customer interactions, and is already a key tool in informing publishing and sales strategies.

Silverchair announced today the addition of Code Ocean to the Silverchair Universe, a framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the Silverchair Platform.

Cambridge University Press is moving four more of its journals from a traditional subscription model to Gold Open Access in a further demonstration of its commitment to the development of a sustainable, more open future for academic publishing.

ConTech 2018 chairs Sam Herbert, of 67Bricks, and Vincent Cassidy, of the IET, explore some of the key issues for publishers looking to become more data-driven in the run up to November’s event.

PubGrade’s platform-as-a-service solution: PubGrade for Publishers provides The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) with a fully integrated advertising platform that enables the sales team to offer their advertiser clients cutting-edge digital advertising solutions.