« Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, MA. Aries’ offerings are used by journals, books and other publications…
« This strategy paper discusses the funding activities of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in the area of scientific information infrastructures. It has two functions. First, it reflects on the basic structural framework of DFG funding activities in relation to information infrastructures in the sciences and humanities – both…
« Les développeurs informatiques du monde entier utilisent ce service, devenu en une décennie seulement l’un des sites les plus populaires.
C’est un achat considérable : après plusieurs jours de rumeurs, Microsoft a annoncé lundi 4 juin l’acquisition pour 7,5 milliards de dollars de la plate-forme GitHub, dont le siège…
« En février 2018 le premier éditeur scientifique mondial change de structure. RELX, la maison-mère d’Elsevier, cesse de former une entreprise bicéphale entre le Royaume-Uni et les Pays-bas cotée à Londres et Amsterdam. (…)
Cette restructuration n’est pas qu’un enjeu de gouvernance interne mais marque une évolution profonde de la stratégie…
(…) The Architecture Committee of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published its 2018 update of the NISO Strategic Directions document which will be used by its leadership groups, the NISO Topic Committees, to direct the future development portfolios of standards and recommended practices. The three NISO Topic Committees–Information…
« Today, NWO announced its new strategy for the period 2019-2022. The strategic plan describes five ambitions of NWO to facilitate the scientific and societal impact of Dutch research in the coming years. This requires an effective organisation that focuses on the connection within science and between science and society. (…) »
« Clarivate Analytics today announced the strategic acquisition of AI-technology startup Kopernio, to create the definitive publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide. Kopernio’s vision is to legally provide one-click access to millions of journal articles and academic research papers across the globe, dramatically…
« The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community. This strategic partnership among three of the largest…
« SURF, a cooperative of research and educational institutions that supports researchers throughout the Netherlands, has joined the iRODS Consortium and plans to use iRODS to support Dutch scientists and their research data management needs.
SURF joins Bayer, Dell/EMC, DDN, HGST, IBM, Intel, MSC, the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health…
« This Staff Working Document (SWD) presents the outcome of the exploration of appropriate governance and financing mechanisms for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in the form
of a possible implementation Roadmap, as foreseen by the Communication on the ‘European Cloud Initiative (…)
The document also describes the…
