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Springer Nature and ResearchGate today extend their content sharing pilot. The second iteration of the pilot will now see four times more SpringerNature content being rolled out across the ResearchGate platform, including content from specialized Springer journals.

Two new seminars from ALPSP - The rise of the RFP: How to embrace and get the most out of your RFP processes & I Never Metadata I Didn't Like.

Digital Science and Wiley announce an agreement that will provide Dimensions Analytics to hundreds of users across the organization. Dimensions delivers powerful metrics and analytical tools that enable publishers to monitor the research landscape, shape publication strategy, and gain actionable business intelligence insights.

Enago, a global leader in author services, announces the addition to its senior team of two experienced STM publishing professionals. Reinhard Schuelke joins as Vice President Strategic Alliances and Tony O’Rourke as Vice President, Partnerships. They will drive Enago’s relationships and business with publishers, research institutions and the professional and academic publishing sector as a whole.

Emerald Publishing has announced today that its new Insight digital research platform has gone live, following a significant investment in technology and many months of development in partnership with software development consultancy 67 Bricks.

Clarivate Analytics plc (NYSE: CCC; CCC.WS), a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501,”Hitachi”) today announced the launch of a new solution in Japan, which is designed to streamline research and evaluation of worldwide patent documents.

The Harvard Data Science Initiative and The MIT Press launch the HARVARD DATA SCIENCE REVIEW to publicly promote the latest research, educational resources, and commentary from the leading minds in data science.

SciencePOD announces registration is now open to access the beta version of its content creation platform. Beta testers will have direct access to the SciencePOD cloud-based platform and to SciencePOD’s extensive community of pre-vetted content creators and subject matter experts. With a few clicks, beta testers can now order quality science, medicine, technology and innovation content, saving them time and money.

ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, and the Royal Society have jointly published a discussion paper on Flourishing in a data-enabled society (PDF). Based on the outcomes of discussions during an ALLEA/Royal Society conference in November 2018, the paper calls for a coordinated approach across disciplines and sectors to ensure data and digital technologies support human flourishing.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), a global leader in research and education, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire Zyante Inc., a leading provider of computer science and STEM education courseware. Under the terms of the agreement, which will close on July 1, 2019, Zyante shareholders will receive $56 million in cash.

Foundational planning is currently underway for the formation of an Open Access Book Network. Development of this network was the topic of a recent ELPUB 2019 Conference panel session led by Eelco Ferwerda from OAPEN, with the University of Cambridge’s Rupert Gatti, Pierre Mounier of OPERAS, Andrea Bertino of SUB Goettingen, and SPARC Europe Director Vanessa Proudman.

PLOS today announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can take advantage of the same benefits to track their contributions, claim credit, and build up their research profiles.