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Hum Unveils Lodestone, Cutting-Edge LLM to Unlock Deep Insight
Hum, the leading provider of AI & data intelligence solutions for publishers, today announced the open source release of their new large language model (LLM), Lodestone. Lodestone is the new LLM model powering Alchemist. It creates rich, AI-native representations called …
Clarivate Annual G20 Scorecard Analyzes Global Research Performance Trends Across G20 Nations
New dynamic, interactive data visualizations illuminate shifts in global research landscape and enable rapid comparative analyses London, U.K. August 30, 2023 Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, …
Lancaster University Selects Chronoshub as Its Preferred Open Access Management Platform
Lancaster University has awarded a public tender to ChronosHub, the leading open access (OA) management platform. In a sector-leading move for the university, it is the first time the platform will be launched for an institution in the United Kingdom. …
Brill Expands Open Access Activities: Joins OA Switchboard
Brill is delighted to announce their partnership with the OA Switchboard, the independent, community-driven intermediary dedicated to streamlining and simplifying the transition to Open Access. The OA Switchboard facilitates the exchange of OA-related publication-level information between publishers, funders, and libraries, …
CCC & GO FAIR Foundation Host Forum on Building AI Strategies with FAIR Data
Experts to Address Latest Developments in Adoption of FAIR Principles to Fuel Artificial Intelligence and Accelerate Discovery CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, in partnership with the GO FAIR Foundation, will host its inaugural FAIR Forum …
American Council of Learned Societies Announces the Launch of the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the launch of the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, supported by Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. These prizes, among the …
Kriyadocs Presents Publisherspeak 2023: A Conference to Elevate Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration
August 14, 2023 – Kriyadocs is thrilled to announce Publisherspeak 2023, an in-person conference set to take place on September 26 in Washington, DC. Publisherspeak 2023 is an invite-only event that seeks to bring together key stakeholders, thought leaders, and …
MIT Press’s Direct to Open (d2o) Achieves Second Year Goal, Opens Access to Eighty-Two New Books in 2023
With 322 participating libraries and new consortium agreements, the D2O publishing model has now opened access to more than 160 scholarly monographs and edited collections. August 3, 2023 (Cambridge, MA)—Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open …
Kolabtree Merges with CACTUS to Enhance User Experience Through a New Managed Service Model
India, August 9, 2023: Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a science communication and technology company, has announced a merger with Kolabtree, the world’s largest freelancing platform for scientists that connects businesses and labs with freelance PhD-qualified scientists all over the world. The …
Sheridan Pennsylvania Installs a Second Komori Lithrone GX840P+C Eight-Unit Perfecting Press
Hanover, PA —Nearly two years after Sheridan Pennsylvania installed its first Komori Lithrone GX840P-C Eight-Unit Perfecting Press (the first of that model to be installed in the world), the facility has added another. The second press is virtually identical to …