News Elsevier unveils Jisc collaboration
The UK’s research institutions have signed a landmark agreement with Elsevier, granting academics access to globally- published research at costs lower than the industry average. In addition, Jisc Collections and Elsevier
have agreed to cooperate on several Open Science opportunities, leveraging Elsevier’s technology and analytics capabilities to help make science in the UK more collaborative, transparent, effective, and efficient. The five-year contract grants
subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform. Paul Feldman, CEO of Jisc, said: ‘Jisc Collections’ analysis shows that over the course of our previous agreement, Elsevier research articles have been of excellent quality at a price per accessible article below the average for the agreements that Jisc Collections negotiates with other publishers. ‘Our new ScienceDirect subscription
agreement means that in the next five years UK universities will again benefit from Elsevier’s outstanding article quality while they continuously push the price
per accessible article below industry average. As such, Elsevier will continue to deliver exceptional value for research and teaching across the UK. Combined with our collaboration on Open Science projects, these components add up to a landmark agreement of extraordinary value.’ Professor Sir David Eastwood, Vice
Chancellor at University of Birmingham, said: ‘I am delighted we have reached an agreement that recognises the needs of the sector, and the need to ensure affordable access to high-quality content for UK researchers. ‘The agreement offers stability for the
sector and for Elsevier, and we hope to build on the many positive aspects of our discussions.’ Gino Ussi, executive vice president at
Elsevier, added: ‘With this agreement, Jisc Collections and Elsevier have lived up to their shared responsibility of providing the best possible value for the UK research community and set the stage for a fruitful partnership going forward. In addition to ensuring content quality above the industry average, we will work together on open science initiatives.’
Europe PMC to display Altmetric badge
More than three million articles on Europe PMC will now display Altmetric badges, enabling users to view their scholarly and social impact. Europe PubMed Central, the free online database of biomedical research abstracts, has added Altmetric badge visualisations to its database. The integration offers a collated record of online mentions, shares and discussions for each individual article.
Including the badges enables New head of sales for Sage Asia Pacific
Rosalia da Garcia has been appointed deputy managing director and head of sales and marketing, Sage Asia Pacific. She will be responsible for the strategic direction of textbook and library sales, as well as development and marketing within the Asia Pacific region. Da Garcia joined Sage
Asia Pacific shortly after the office opened in 2006, having previously worked for McGraw Hill, Pearson Education, Wiley and Elsevier. With experience across customer service, acquisitions, books and journals/library sales, to marketing and foreign rights management,
da Garcia has been a strategic part of Sage Asia Pacific’s development; more recently she has overseen the marketing development of Sage’s online products within the region. Paul Evans, managing
director, Sage Asia Pacific, said: ‘Following the setting-up of Sage Asia Pacific nearly a decade ago, the markets in Asia and Australasia remain a key strategic opportunity for Sage worldwide. As we continue to grow our business and develop new products that seek to adapt to the changing needs of the scholarly community, the Asia Pacific market is critical
to our future success. We are proud of what the team in SAGE Asia Pacific have accomplished thus far and are confident that in this new role, Rosalia will be able to contribute to our continued expansion.’ Da Garcia added: ‘I am hugely excited by the opportunities this new role offers. Having for Sage for nearly a decade, and seen our development with the Asia Pacific region, I am excited by our ongoing opportunities. As we look to develop our digital resources further and reach new markets, I look forward to reaching out to this customer base directly to market our wealth of products and resources.’
academics and researchers to click through to see the collated record of attention across a variety of sources including news and social media, public policy documents, post-publication review forums, online reference managers and Wikipedia, with all data updated in real-time. Florian Gräf, software
developer at Europe PMC, said: ‘We are very keen to give our users different ways to filter and analyse the content we host. Introducing Altmetric badges to the Europe PMC website provides easy access to different types of attention and makes it easier for researchers to engage with each other as well as a broader audience.’ Altmetric’s founder Euan Adie
(above) added: ‘The addition of Altmetric badges to Europe PMC allows for immediate insight into the broader activity surrounding content indexed on the platform. Users will be able to see clearly the attention that each article has received among a wider audience, and make more informed decisions about their reference material’.
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