NEWS
Open access funding for journals
MATHS journals from La Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) and EDP Sciences will be moved to an open access model.
The journal publishers applied for fund- ing from Fonds national pour la science ouvert (FNSO) and it is one of 22 successful bids that will allow organisations to move to open access publication. Anne Ruimy, Senior Publisher, EDP Sciences, said: “The mathematics community is particularly supportive of open science and we are keen to do all we can to support both maths and open science in a fair and sustainable way.”
New titles added
for online access HUNDREDS of titles have been added to Oxford Scholarship Online as part of Oxford University Press’ digital offering. More than 600 titles across seven new modules have been included in the online platform, with many of the titles available digitally for the first time. David Clark, Managing Director of OUP’s Academic Division, said: “We learnt a lot, very rapidly, as the Covid-19 pandemic began this accelerated our efforts to deliver the experience users value in physical books with the best of what the online world has to offer. Digital research libraries are vital to meeting the needs of the academic commun- ity and enabling the scholarship of the future to continue despite the challenges we face.”
‘Call for papers’ for collections summit
ORGANISERS for the DCDC21 Conference have issued a call for papers on Catalysts for change: transforming our practices, collec- tions, and communities through times of crisis. The joint conference – hosted by The National Archives, RLUK and Jisc – is a cross-sectoral event for those working with collections from across the GLAMA sectors. The event will run for a week from 28 June to 2 July 2021. Full details of how to submit a proposal can be found at the DCDC Confer- ence website, and the deadline for proposals is 22 January 2021. l
https://dcdcconference.com/cfp
10 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL
Merger deal worth £44bn highlights value of data
ONE of the world’s biggest financial data firms has agreed a $44bn merger as it looks to bolster its position in the sector.
S&P Global will acquire IHS Markit Ltd in the deal that highlights the importance and value of data to financial markets. S&P Global is currently the third largest financial data group, behind market leader Bloomberg and second placed Refinitiv. The new deal, if approved by market reg- ulators, would cement S&P Global in third spot, but would still leave the company training its two larger rivals. IHS Market is eight in terms of annual turnover, accord- ing to market research firm Burton-Taylor. Douglas Peterson, President and CEO of S&P Global, will lead the newly
merged company, saying “This merger increases scale while rounding out our combined capabilities, and accelerates and amplifies our ability to deliver cus- tomers the essential intelligence needed to make decisions with conviction. We are confident that the strengths of S&P Global and IHS Markit will enable meaningful growth and create attrac- tive value for all stakeholders.” The new company will commit to spending £1bn annually on technology investment as it looks to capitalise on increased scale and market share. The investment in technology is described as an “ongoing commitment to remain on the cutting edge of technology and innovation”.
Kent Strix lecture on web search analysis for ‘good’
PROFESSOR Ingemar J Cox delivered the annual Tony Kent Strix Memori- al Lecture and the presentation can be viewed online for anyone who missed it. Entitled “Analysing Web searches for public good: inferring the health of pop- ulations and individuals”. Professor Cox is Head of UCL’s Media Future Research Group and a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He said “a user’s queries r eveal information about the user. This information can be used for many pur- poses, including personalising Web search results, and facilitating personalised/ targeted advertising. In this talk, I will describe ongoing work we are conducting that analyses users’ Web searches to infer the health of populations and individuals.” Professor Cox’s work demonstrates how
information retrieval and data analytics can be utilised beyond just returning results to users. He adds: “Our work has mainly focused on influenza, but we will also report recent work on Covid-19. At an individual level, we discuss methods to stratify users into disease risk groups, and
to predict the likelihood of specific diseases, including some forms of cancer. These methods have a variety of advantages for public health surveillance and individual health. However, these same methods raise significant privacy and ethical concerns.” The Tony Kent Strix award is made
by CILP’s UKeiG in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organ isation UK (ISKO UK), the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Informa- tion and Computer Applications Group (RSC CICAG) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Special- ist Group (BCS IRSG), and the winner is invited to speak at the annual lecture event. Professor Cox won the 2019 award for his work and contribution to the field of information retrieval. This year’s lecture also featured an opening address by Martin White, Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd and a Visiting Profes- sor at the Information School, University of Sheffield.
Martin’s presentation us at https://bit. ly/2K2Ak7b and Professor Cox’s is at https://
bit.ly/3nq2M15.
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