Tech

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced a new partnership with River Valley Technologies to supply a state of the art peer review solution to support its leading publishing programme.

Silicon Valley-based publishing technology company Atypon has opened an office in Rochester, NY to keep pace with their aggressive hiring of software engineers, front-end developers, solution architects, and project managers.

Digital Science, a leading technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities has made an investment in IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, a leading supplier of patent data for resellers and innovators based in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The investment bolsters Digital Science’s portfolio of technology tools and services to support the research and healthcare sectors

We are proud to announce our investment in Peerwith – a marketplace for author services, matching academics seeking support for their work with experts who can provide a plethora of services to increase the scientific impact of their work.

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that Tsinghua University in Beijing has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service to replace the university’s Innovative Millennium integrated library system. Tsinghua University was ranked as the top university in China by QS World University Rankings®.

Though 83% of librarians agree that information literacy affects college graduation rates and 97% believe that this skill set contributes to success in the workforce, 44% think that their library does not support information literacy instruction as much as it should.

Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, today announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data.

Gale, a Cengage company, has launched Gale Interactive: Chemistry and Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy for the academic market. Through innovative technology, these new digital resources combine Gale’s curriculum-aligned research content with interactive 3D models from partner VIVED to help students understand science topics.

Information products and services provider Elsevier has launched CiteScoreTM metrics in Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, providing the scholarly community free access to comprehensive metrics for journals from over 5,000 publishers.

Digital Science, a leading global technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities, together with Research Councils UK (RCUK) today published a study of methodologies for the identification and assessment of interdisciplinary research. It follows a series of projects by UK Research and Higher Education Funding Councils into the nature of research and interdisciplinarity.

John Wiley & Sons Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), announced today the launch of a new Author Services website that streamlines the publishing process for authors publishing with the majority of Wiley’s 1600+ journals. Author Services supports users through every stage of the publishing process, from submission and peer review through to acceptance and publication

IOP Publishing has announced a new partnership with Altmetric and Digital Science, to provide its authors and readers with a deeper understanding of how published research is being used and discussed. Authors and readers will be able to view the online attention surrounding each publication via the Altmetric badges embedded into article pages.