PRODUCTS Product news Kudos strikes new partnerships
Kudos author dashboards will be augmented with citation data from Web of Science. Kudos provides a platform through which academics can ensure their work is more widely visible, and for measuring the effect of different activities that support discovery.
‘Citations remain a critical measure of the impact of a researcher’s work, and Thomson Reuters is a recognised authority for providing citation data,’ said Melinda Kenneway, a director
and co-founder of Kudos. David Sommer, the company’s fellow co-founder, added: ‘As more and more emphasis is placed on the performance of individual research outputs, it’s critical that publications are assigned to the correct author, which ORCID enables, and that authors then have help in explaining and sharing those publications with wider audiences, which is where Kudos comes in.’
www.growkudos.com
SAGE strengthens education-journal portfolio
SAGE has purchased Symposium Journals, which was set up 12 years ago and has nine journals that publish international educaitonal research. The titles include: Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, E-Learning and Digital
Media, European Educational Research Journal, Global Studies of Childhood, Policy Futures in Education, Power and Education, Psychology Learning & Teaching and Research in Comparative and International Education.
www.sagepublications.com
IOS Press chooses Semantico for STM platform
Semantico has been chosen by IOS Press to design and deliver a publishing platform to support its collection of STM books and journals. IOS Press publishes more than 100 journals and 75 book titles each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences
and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. The content platform promises to have an emphasis on a simpler, more elegant delivery infrastructure, with the aim of improving discoverability and precise search functionality.
www.iospress.nl
CUP acquires Journal of Global History
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has acquired the Journal of Global History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The journal was launched by CUP and LSE in 2005, in
response to a growing intellectual search for an approach to the history of global change that was not limited by traditional geographic, thematic or disciplinary boundaries.
www.cambridge.org
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Material from psychiatric hospitals to be digitised by Wellcome Library
Some 800,000 pages of material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK from the 18th to the 20th century will be digitised and made freely available as part of the Wellcome Library’s digitisation programme. The documents will be available via the Wellcome Library’s website, where users will
be able to search the archives using the catalogue and view documents on the media player. The documents will be under an open licence (CC-BY or CC-BY-NC), allowing users to view, download, reproduce and distribute the material.
wellcomelibrary.org
Wiley invests in open-access tool
The new Wiley Open Access Account Dashboard is an online tool aimed at simplifying the management of open-access funds for institutions and funders. Wiley says the product, available for all Wiley Open Access account holders, provides funder and
institutional customers with control over their open access funds online. Account holders can approve or deny open-access payment requests immediately, while authors will be informed of decisions as soon as they are made.
www.wiley.com
OpenAthens software integrates with EBSCO tools
OpenAthens, the single sign-on software that helps libraries connect their patrons to online subscription content, has announced a global partnership that will see its identity and access management services integrated with EBSCO content and discovery tools.
EBSCO’s representatives will help to drive awareness and sales of OpenAthens in key regions and markets across the world including North America, Europe and Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
www.ebsco.com www.openathens.net
Nature moves to open access only
Nature Communications has become the first Nature-branded open-access-only journal. Carrie Calder, strategy director for open research at Nature Publishing Group/ Palgrave Macmillan told Research Information that she sees an appetite among the research community for this move: ‘We believe there is a need for a high-quality, open- access journal now. We have also decided this is more sustainable
for the research community, and particularly for library budgets, given the rapid growth in published articles.’
In addition, Nature
Communications now offers the CC BY 4.0 licence as default, with other Creative Commons (CC) licences available upon request. The publisher says that there is no price difference in APC whichever CC licence authors choose.
www.nature.com/ncomms
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