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Kortext and Dawson Books collaborate
Digital textbook platform Kortext and Dawson Books have announced a partnership to help libraries and students change the way they discover, acquire, access and work with e-content. For students using the
Dawson product Dawsonera, this partnership gives them the ability to download content from their library collections directly into the Kortext reading app for free, allowing them to use the library materials alongside their textbooks. They will also be able to use accessibility features from within the Kortext apps. Dawsonera users will also be able to use their Microsoft Office 365 account from within Kortext. For libraries, Kortext and
Dawson Books are collaborating on the development of library work-flow solutions aimed at making it easier for Dawsonenter users to discover and order Kortext digital textbook content. Jane Johnson, executive
director of library services at Dawson Books, said: ‘This is a really exciting partnership, demonstrating how Dawson Books is innovating in the library supply market. Our aim is to work with Kortext to improve students’ study experience and help libraries discover and acquire digital textbooks; providing greater value to our customers.’ Andy Alferovs, MD of Kortext, added: ‘We are delighted to partner with Dawson Books to enable students easy access and use of their library content, alongside their own digital textbooks and personalised learning content. This partnership will make it easier for universities, university libraries and students to acquire, access and benefit from digital textbooks and learning resources.’
Springer Nature initiatives support ORCID
Springer Nature has launched two initiatives in support of ORCID, which gives researchers a unique, personal, persistent identifier (an iD) that distinguishes them from every other researcher. ORCID also enables organisations to
link researchers’ affiliations and works – including their publications – to their iD, ensuring they receive proper credit for their work. The first initiative is a trial that will mandate ORCID iDs for corresponding authors publishing in 46 journals from across the whole of Springer Nature, including Nature Research, Springer and BioMed Central. This trial is the latest development in Springer Nature’s history of support for ORCID, which has led to more than 500,000 unique identifiers being used across the portfolio. The trial lasts six months and researchers’ perceptions will be evaluated at the end. Alison Mitchell, chief publishing advisor at Springer Nature, explained: ‘We want our authors to share their discoveries and receive proper credit for doing so. Hundreds of thousands of our authors already support ORCID, and our technical systems are already very well integrated, but we hope that the upcoming trial will
go further, to ensure that even more academics sign up for ORCID and get recognition for their work. We are very proud of the growth of ORCID, an organisation that we helped to set up back in 2010.’ Laurel L Haak, executive director at
ORCID, added: ‘Springer Nature was an early adopter of ORCID, providing the publishing community a clear example of best practice in collecting ORCID iDs and passing them through manuscript submission and production processes. Springer Nature’s new initiatives signify their long-standing commitment to supporting the adoption of ORCID and use of implementation standards to streamline the user experience.’ The second initiative will see Springer
become the first publisher to include ORCID iDs in proceedings papers. Springer’s proceedings submission system, OCS, allows authors to enter and validate their ORCID iDs, thus integrating them into the workflow process from the very beginning. Authors and editors of proceedings that use other conference management systems can still provide ORCID iDs to appear in the proceedings and next to the editors’ information.
Sage and Bath University to create Public Data Lab
Sage Publishing has teamed up with the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, to establish a Public Data Lab. The facility is aimed at furthering social science research, teaching and public engagement activities around the future of the data society. Incubated at the Institute
for Policy Research under the direction of Prize Fellow Dr Jonathan Gray and Professor Nick Pearce, the lab will mobilise an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and organisations in order to develop and
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disseminate innovative research, teaching, design and participation formats for the creation and use of public data. The Public Data
Lab will support the experimentation around the use, creation and co- production of digital public data in the service of social research, policy-making, advocacy, journalism and public participation around current and future global challenges – from climate change to tax- base erosion, migration to automation. Sage’s president of global publishing, Ziyad Marar, welcomed the new initiative: ‘For Sage
Publishing to support the establishment of the Public Data Lab to advance social science research and to initiate its first phase of research and public engagement activities, is both exciting and fitting. In an era of unprecedented data flows, we are fundamentally changing how we make sense of the world, and Sage believes social science needs to play a critical role where this impacts on society. It is our hope Public Data Lab, with Sage’s support, will become a pioneer of innovative digital tools, methods and born digital data in public policy, research and teaching.’
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