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Overleaf partners with Royal Society
Through a partnership just announced between Overleaf and The Royal Society, authors submitting to Proceedings of the Royal Society A will have access to the Overleaf collaborative cloud-based writing and reviewing tool. The Proceedings A journal authoring template is available within the Overleaf platform to help authors write, collaborate and submit their work in the correct journal format.
The Royal Society is a self-governing fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. Phil Hurst, publisher at the Royal Society, said: ‘We are pleased to partner with Overleaf to provide Proceedings A authors with a simpler and more flexible route to publication.’ John Hammersley, founder and CEO of Overleaf, added: ‘As a mathematician myself, I’m delighted that we’re now able to provide a direct submission link from Overleaf to Proceedings A. This is a great partnership, one that enables The Royal Society and Overleaf to offer a simpler writing and submission process for Royal Society authors worldwide.’
Amsterdam universities sign up for Figshare offering
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igshare has announced that The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences (HvA) have signed up for the Figshare for Institutions offering.
Figshare for Institutions is aimed at helping academic institutions to manage, disseminate and measure the public impact of all their research outputs, while easing the route to compliance with open data mandates.
Following the meeting of the Competitiveness Council (a gathering of EU ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry) in Brussels on 27 May, all scientific publicly funded articles in Europe must be freely accessible and the data must be reusable, unless there are ‘well-founded reasons for not doing so’ by 2020. In line with this move, UvA and HvA will go one step further and use Figshare for Institutions to provide an intuitive interface to enable
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the deposit and management of active research data, along with efficient mechanisms for open sharing, collaboration and discoverability.
The pioneering platform is already established at institutions across the UK, Europe, Australasia, and the USA, supporting needs for better storage, preservation, accessibility and publication of the outputs produced by their researchers. Mark Hahnel, CEO of Figshare, said: ‘Figshare’s mission is to open up scientific data to the world, supporting the EU’s call to make all publicly funded scientific articles
New sales directors for Highwire
HighWire Press has appointed John Corkery and Andy Gardner in the roles of senior sales directors for North America.
For the past seven years, Corkery has been helping clients develop their publishing businesses through technology solutions. As a consultant, he has participated in digital transition and selection projects involving content management systems, content automation, online hosting,
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UX/UI design and discovery. Corkery arrives at HighWire with more than 20 years of publishing and technology experience.
Gardner has worked in publishing for more than 10 years and has been involved in many aspects of the publishing process – from paid content development and medical education for pharmaceutical companies to corporate, academic, and government library sales and licensing of
STM content and databases. Most recently Andy worked with SAGE Publications as a senior library sales manager. Dan Filby, HighWire CEO, said: ‘John and Andy bring an impressive professional and complementary pedigree to HighWire’s growing sales team. The combined insights and deep experience of both the publishing process and the online marketplace will be invaluable as we expand our business in North America.’
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freely accessible by 2020. The University of Amsterdam is also committed to providing sound data management infrastructure, complying with these new mandates, so Figshare for Institutions was a natural solution for them.
‘On top of this, they wanted a platform that would enable their researchers to conduct work more efficiently, offer greater opportunities for sharing and reuse of their research data, and a solution that allows for better management of research resources. We are pleased to offer them all of this functionality with Figshare for Institutions.’
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