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Atypon: new information security and privacy department
Atypon says it has expanded its commitment to enterprise- level IT security and privacy, establishing a Department of Information Security and Privacy and appointing Michael Goodman its director. He will lead Atypon’s security and privacy environment with next-generation controls for protecting publishers’ content, data, and other sensitive corporate information. Goodman will be responsible
for developing and implementing transparent global information security and privacy policies and procedures, ensuring compliance at all levels of the firm, from employee conduct and technology protection, to product application security for Literatum, the firm’s SaaS online publishing platform. This new position reports to Atypon CEO and founder Georgios Papadopoulos. ‘The integrity of Atypon
customers’ information has been of paramount importance since I founded the company, and I’m pleased to say that we have an unblemished 20-year history of maintaining the trust of our customers,’ said Papadopoulos.
Figshare data submission portal
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has launched a tool that enables authors to share their research outputs more efficiently during the publishing process. Springer Nature is the first publisher to pilot this new data submission portal and has worked closely with Figshare to build a customised service to support open research. The tool will reduce the amount of information authors must complete to share data supporting their publications. Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, head of data publishing at Springer Nature, said: ‘We know that many researchers are motivated to share their data but are often faced with challenges in doing so. As a publisher, we want to advance discovery and drive the development of open research by supporting data sharing and accessibility. By working closely with Figshare, we hope this new tool will make it even easier for our authors to share research outputs.’ Mark Hahnel, CEO of Figshare, added: ‘In our State of Open Data report, three quarters of all researchers, whether by mandate or not, state they have made their data sets open and available and value a data citation as much as an article citation. We have been working jointly with Springer Nature to make sure this new service will allow researchers to make their data more easily discoverable and reusable, something researchers consider as core to the furthering of research.’ Springer Nature is using the new tool to
support its new Data Support Services, where research data editors carry out checks on submitted research outputs, advise authors on how best to link files to their articles, and co-ordinate publication of their data. The portal, and Springer Nature’s service, will be developed further in response to feedback. Figshare says authors who use the data
submission portal will: l Save time and effort needed to deposit and curate data and link data to publications;
l Promote citation and reuse of their data; l Enhance and increase visibility of their peer reviewed publications;
l More easily comply with data policies of funding agencies and institutions;
l Contribute to more rapid scientific progress and increased reproducibility; and
l Be able to share a wider variety of their research data files in conjunction with their articles.
The data submission portal is available now to support authors of six BMC journals: BMC Biology, BMC Research Notes, BMC Neuroscience, BMC Plant Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology and BMC Genomics, who wish to openly share their larger supplementary data files. Springer Nature expects to rollout to more
journals following this pilot phase. l To find out more, email: Figshare at
info@figshare.com or Springer Nature at
researchdata@springernature.com.
Granta magazine launches digital archive for institutions
Literary magazine Granta has announced the launch of a digital archive featuring every issue of the historic 38-year- old quarterly. Granta has partnered with digital publishing experts Exact Editions to bring the archive project to life. With the archive launched, every article, story and issue of the famous magazine is available for institutions around the world to purchase as a comprehensive digital research tool. Exact Editions’ digital platform for institutions
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ensures that every issue of the archive is covered by the advanced search functionality. Users can search for terms in a page, issue, decade or even the complete archive, and across web, iOS and Android platforms. Each page of every issue appears in digital, as it would in print, so the archive looks just as good on an iPad, or via the Exact Editions website, as it did when first published in print. An institutional digital
subscription ensures that any school, university, business or other subscribing institution
can offer their users unlimited, IP authenticated access to the Granta digital archive. Access for users is unlimited, so that they can read, download, and search the comprehensive collection of over 100 issues of the Granta archive, as well as each new issue of the magazine. Granta Online editor Luke Neima, said of the archive launch: ‘Today is an exciting day in the history of Granta, as we launch our archive for institutional use. Students and academics can now browse our complete archive
at the touch of a button, and revisit all our articles as they originally appeared. We think that is truly marvellous.’ Exact Editions’ managing
director Daryl Rayner added: ‘We are delighted to have worked with Granta to develop their digital archive. The magazine looks fantastic on an iPad, while having more than 100 issues instantly available is an invaluable resource for institutions wishing to
subscribe.’ l Granta is available at
www.institutions.
exacteditions.com/granta
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