Digital Science discovery platform 'will transform scholarly search' | The Bookseller

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Summary:

"Holtzbrinck technology company Digital Science has collaborated with high-profile universities and research funders to develop a platform, Dimensions, which it says will "democratise and transform scholarly search". Six of Digital Science's portfolio companies - Altmetric, Digital Science Consultancy, Figshare, Readcube, Symplectic and UberResearch - have worked together on the platform, which promises to break down barriers to discovery and innovation, in a major project underway for the past 18 months and launching today (15th January). The roster of international institutes and funders involved in helping develop Dimensions includes the universities of Cambridge, Canterbury and Exeter, Trinity College Dublin, Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Carnegie Mellon University, The Max Planck Digital Library, The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Publishers Springer Nature, John Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, SAGE, Edinburgh and Liverpool UPs, Edward Elgar, MIT and a range of scholarly society publishers are also involved with the platform...."

Link:

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-digital-science-discovery-platform-transform-scholarly-search-707691

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oa.new oa.platforms oa.holtzbrinck oa.search oa.hei oa.publishers oa.funders oa.metadata oa.discoverability oa.digital_science

Date tagged:

01/16/2018, 16:38

Date published:

01/16/2018, 11:38