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Weekly News Digest
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July 21, 2016 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI’s Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks.
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Digital Science Adopts New NIH Metric
Digital Science agreed to adopt the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), the new article-level metric of scientific influence from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is designed “to evaluate funded medical and academic research, [and] to provide an improved indicator on the relative citation strength of a given paper, field-normalised and benchmarked against its peers.” Digital Science companies adopting the RCR include Symplectic, ReadCube, and figshare.For more information, read the press release.
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