Monthly Archives: December 2016

Publisher News: “Over 600 Springer Nature journals commit to new data sharing policies”

Nature Journal News: “Over 600 Springer Nature journals commit to new data sharing policies””

Full story at: http://www.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/over-600-springer-nature-journals-commit-to-new-data-sharing-policies/11111248

Excerpt from announcement:

London, 6 December 2016

More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies. The text of the policies has today been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license so that they can be re-used by the wider research community.

These easy-to-understand policies encourage the publication of more open and reproducible research, and aim to increase growth and innovation in research and data sharing. They improve services for authors, editors and peer reviewers by standardising policies and procedures, providing more consistent links between publications and data, guidelines and support. In addition, a dedicated Research Data Support Helpdesk for Springer Nature authors and editors has been created.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature said: “We want to make data sharing easier and more consistent, enabling our authors to publish better research and enable easier compliance with research funder policies.

Libraries Database News: “IET announces the release of arXiv content in Inspec”

Libraries Database News:

Researchers using arXiv for discovery will soon be able to search arXiv content as part of the Inspec database, and enjoy the sophisticated search functionality offered by the Engineering Village platform. Description of the Inspec database provided at the end of this posting.

Full press release for Inspec – arXiv integration at http://www.theiet.org/policy/media/press-releases/inspec-arxiv.cfm

13 September 2016

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that over 30,000 pre-print articles available in the online repository arXiv will be indexed in Inspec, the leading abstract and indexing database for physics and engineering. The addition of these articles, which will take place by the end of this year, will substantially increase the content held in Inspec, which currently holds over 16 million records, and deliver even greater access to cutting-edge research.

Inspec is the first engineering and physics database to index arXiv records, which include open-access e-prints in a variety of disciplines such as Applied Optics, Physics, Astronomy, Circuits and Computer Science. By including arXiv content in Inspec, researchers will now benefit from Inspec’s highly-curated, world-leading thesaurus, allowing users to query the records in a way they have not been able to before.

Information about Inspec: [From Inspec Fact Sheet ]

Containing almost 16 million records across multidisciplinary and subject specific research including physics, engineering, communications and computing, Inspec is one of the most definitive abstract and indexing databases available. Inspec indexes abstracts to a wide range of formats including journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, reports, patents, dissertations and even video allowing researchers to discover whatever content suits their needs. The platform is also home to a sizeable collection of unique content from all across the world, not found on any other database, representing a great wealth of potentially untapped information.

Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.

Funding News for arXiv-NG: arXiv upgrade to be funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Introducing arXiv-NG [arXiv-Next Generation]

Full Story at https://www.library.cornell.edu/about/news/storiesnews/arxiv

Ithaca, N.Y. (Nov. 29, 2016)  – arXiv.org, the influential open access repository for global scientific research, will begin the first phrase of a three-year overhaul and modernization with the help of a $445,000 grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Sloan Foundation grant will fund the creation of a detailed blueprint for next-generation arXiv – to be known as arXiv-NG – allowing planners to establish new partnerships, identify necessary resources and build a core development team to lead the modernization process.

Royal Society of Chemistry News: “Major society chemistry publishers jointly commit to integration with ORCID”

Scholarly  Publication News News: “Major society chemistry publishers jointly commit to integration with ORCID”.

Full story at: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2016/nov/major-society-chemistry-publishers-jointly-commit-to-integration-with-orcid/

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, AND WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2016 —
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) today each became signatories to the ORCID Open Letter, reasserting the commitment of both organizations to enhancing the scholarly publishing experience for researchers worldwide who are involved in chemistry and allied fields.

The commitment by these two global chemistry publishers to undertake new workflow integration with technology infrastructure provided by ORCID, a not-for-profit organization that provides unique identifiers for researchers and scholars, will enable both societies to provide unambiguous designation of author names within chemistry and across the broader sciences. This partnership with ORCID will resolve ambiguity in researcher identification caused by name changes, cultural differences in name presentation, and the inconsistent use of name abbreviations that is too often a source of confusion for those who must rely on the published scientific record.

Scholarly Publication News: “Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors”

Wiley News – November 2016:   Authors submitting manuscripts to Wiley for publication will need to also provide an ORCID ID.

“Hoboken, NJ– November 28, 2016—John Wiley & Sons Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript.”

Read more at http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-129824.html

Information at Orchid ID’s found at http://orcid.org/

“ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.”