(18 October 2013) Two weeks ago today DOAJ published an initial response to the John Bohannon ‘sting’ article published in Science Magazine. (See here). The response came a day after the article’s embargo broke, while Twitter, blogs and news sites were excitedly discussing the article’s implications, the shortcomings of its methodology and the failings. Now…
(London/Frankfurt, 9 October 2013) RCN Publishing (RCNP) announced today that the archives of their renowned nursing journals will be available in a range of collections for institutional access. Spanning 17 years from 1996 – present, this unique archive of articles includes more than 14,000 articles from the 10 journals published by RCN Publishing during this…
(Ann Arbor, Mich., 1 October 2013) ProQuest is serving the dramatic growth in academic research in India with its first solution designed specifically for this market. ProQuest® Indian Journals enables researchers from around the world to cross-search and access premier academic journals published entirely in India along with other ProQuest content all in one step. ProQuest…
(Note that none of the ADAT links below have worked for a year or more.) (See also http://www.crl.edu/news/database-assessment-tool-available-crl) (20 October 2016) The ADAT website notes that The Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT), which was originally developed by JISC and later hosted at CRL, has been discontinued. The descriptive information on electronic resources, however, has been…
(Hoboken, N.J. 11 September 2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced it will join patientACCESS, a new program which offers low-cost access to medical and scientific research articles to patients and caregivers. From September 2013, 310 Wiley journals will join the international collaboration between publishers, the Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing…
(11 September 2013) The Royal Society of Chemistry has integrated a new system for monitoring article-level metrics into a selection of its scientific journals. The metrics are provided by London-based start-up Altmetric. The new service extracts online mentions of scholarly articles from social media, newspapers, blogs and other sources and collates them into reports that…
(2 July 2013) IEEE, the world’s leading technical professional organization for the advancement of technology, has maintained its position as one of the top publishers of science and technology journals. According to the 2012 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports© (JCR) released in June 2013, IEEE journals sustained their status as premier scholarly publications, earning high…
Japan’s National Diet Library has published online the National Diet Library Newsletter No. 189, June 2013 Selections from NDL Collection Haetori-de : the time Kodomo no Kuni reflects Events The Japan Specialist Workshop 2013 Symposium “Why support for overseas Japanese Studies now?” Events Lecture by Ms. Cornelia Diebel from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, “Acquiring Digital Information…
(20 Jun 2013, Bristol, UK) The 2012 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, once again show growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP) for the ninth year running. This year, 33 of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 26 titles have had…
(London, UK and New York, NY, 19 June 2013) The British Library and digital preservation specialist Portico announced today that they will be working together to ensure that thousands of electronic journal titles will be collected, preserved and made available to current and future generations of researchers. The partnership will help the British Library—along with…
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