« (…) The strategy stands upon the four pillars of: building the Marketplace as a humanist-friendly component of the European Open Science Cloud; approaching training and education strategically and in a coordinated fashion; deepening our connection to our communities and ensuring they are with us; and strengthening our voice in policy…
« Today, we’re announcing a shift in how SPARC supports OpenCon to reflect the OpenCon community’s evolution. Instead of hosting a global conference in 2019, we will focus on laying the long-term foundation for the OpenCon community, and will host a reconfigured global meeting in 2020. This decision was driven by…
« Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Parity Computing Inc. (“Parity”), a California-based business that employs artificial intelligence to provide high-accuracy entity resolution, profiling and recommendations…
« Les 4 actionnaires d’EDP Sciences ont signé le 28 juin 2019 un contrat de cession, « SPA », avec la société CSPM (China Science Publishing and Media), pour céder 100% des actions de la société EDP Sciences SA. La cession définitive sera effective dans environ 3 mois après approbation de…
« Reprendre le contrôle en utilisant des logiciels ouverts
Le projet Microsoft Alternatives (MAlt) a débuté il y a un an pour atténuer les effets des augmentations prévues des droits de licence de logiciel. L’objectif de MAlt est de permettre de reprendre le contrôle en utilisant des logiciels ouverts. Il…
« Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies’ business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.
As their traditional print-based business models erode, major scholarly and textbook publishers are transitioning from being content providers to technology and data companies, too.…
« Last week, Salesforce announced it will pay $300 million in cash for Salesforce.org, which sells discounted licenses of Salesforce’s customer-relationship management (CRM) tools to nonprofits and educational institutions. (…) »
« The U.S. Copyright Office released today its strategic plan that sets priorities of the Office for the next five years. The plan describes how the Office will streamline and improve the efficiency of services while actively participating in discussions, both national and international, on ways to further transform the Office…
« The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results. (…) »
« Atypon has announced today its acquisition of two authoring platforms – Authorea and Manuscripts – enabling the company to provide free HTML-first authoring and collaboration tools for researchers. Already used by over 200,000 researchers across the globe, these tools enable researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data, and publish. (…) »
