Latest

As part of SAGE Publishing’s commitment to ethical, transparent and fair peer review SAGE has signed the ORCID open letter along with other stakeholders. Committing to mandating ORCID in accordance with the best practice for publishers, this step ensures better recognition and accreditation for researchers as well as supporting author and researcher compliance with funding mandates.

The first ever ConTech conference took place last week at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London, UK. Attendees witnessed three first class and completely different keynotes, ground breaking speaker sessions as well as a pharma focused special session.

Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research, will develop and launch a new communications management system for researchers, after securing £2.2m investment in a round led by Mobeus Equity Partners.

Cambridge University Press has reached a major Open Access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden.

The European research project ROMSOC partners with PaperHive, a copyright-compliant scholarly collaboration network, to facilitate research collaboration and boost the visibility of research results. All articles emerging from the project will be available for discussion within PaperHive.

IntechOpen’s CEO, Dr. Anke Beck this week attends the German Council for Information Infrastructure (RFii ) as a new Council member.  By order of the Council of Science and Humanities (Gemeinsamer Wissenschaftsrats) the group of experts is tasked to advise Politics and Academia how to establish and develop the information infrastructures for academia and to formulate German positions in this area.

Three student bursary places have been awarded to attend the inaugural ConTech which opens in just a weeks’ time. There was an extremely high level of interest and making a final decision was exceptionally tough.

The very first ConTech opens next week and there is so much to see, learn and share. Over 35 speakers from all over the world as they explore where we are today and what the future holds.

The Charlesworth Group, is delighted to announce that Dove Medical Press Ltd. has chosen to integrate its manuscript submission system into Charlesworth’s WeChat Gateway platform.

Every organisation creating and managing content collects mountains of data on its users and content – some valuable, some not. Using techniques like artificial intelligence, machine learning and visualisation, data science helps distinguish between the two – telling the story behind the data, predicting what will happen in the future, and zooming in on user needs in ways that would have been impossible before.

“A conference purely on digital content is long overdue…” Daniel McCrea, Head of Publisher Services for Adaptemy. “ConTech is one of the most sought after tech events for the content industry…” Max Gabriel, Chief Digital Officer, Taylor & Francis and Managing Partner, Informa Ventures

ConTech 2018 features pioneering organisations who have embraced new intelligent technologies to change the creation, management and use of scholarly and professional information content. Here are two companies that you will be in attendance over the two days: