(31 March 2015) In addition to being clearer, better-organized, and easier to navigate, the site includes a number of enhancements. The new resources page at artstor.org/resources, is a convenient archive of brochures and manuals, ArtStor webinar schedules, new Curriculum Guides, AP teaching resources, and promotional materials for librarians. Further, there are three new support sites…
(26 March 2015) In November last year, BioMed Central uncovered evidence of repeated and inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review process of several journals (see the original statement and update). The apparent intention was to deceive Editors and positively influence the outcome of peer review by suggesting fabricated reviewers. Although only a handful of…
(27 March 2015 New York/Delhi) Thieme Publishers Delhi (TPD) has signed on as the official publisher for the Trauma Society of India (TSI). TPD has agreed to publish two titles per year for TSI. Guidelines in Fracture Management – Nonunion Part 1 and Guidelines in Fracture Management – Proximal Tibia were published in 2014. Guidelines…
(26 March 2015) Global academic publisher, CABI, today announced its bibliographic platform CAB Direct has reached the milestone of 11 million records. CABI’s in-house platform, CAB Direct, hosts CAB Abstracts the leading English language bibliographic database covering the applied life sciences. Updated weekly, CAB Direct now offers over 11 million records dating back more than…
(25 March 2015) Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) today signed an official agreement with Nature Publishing Group to launch the first Nature Partner Journal in China, npj Computational Materials. The open access Nature Partner Journals (NPJ) publish high-quality research in collaboration with world-renowned international partners, and have adopted a modified set…
(24 March 2015, Ann Arbor, MI) ProQuest will enable the full text of its scholarly journal content to be indexed in Google Scholar, improving research outcomes. Work is underway and the company anticipates that by the third-quarter of 2015, users starting their research in Google Scholar will be able to access scholarly content via ProQuest.…
(23 March 2015) After intensive collaboration with Dr. Cyril Labbé from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, Springer announces the release of SciDetect, a new software program that automatically checks for fake scientific papers. The open source software discovers text that has been generated with the SCIgen computer program and other fake-paper generators like Mathgen…
(18 March 2015, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, UK) Cambridge University Press (CUP) announced today that it has adopted the OrgRef dataset to help clean and de-duplicate its customer data. OrgRef is a free and open dataset which has been created by DataSalon for the benefit of the scholarly publishing community. OrgRef shares structured information about…
(18 March 2015) Oxford University Press was named the Publisher of the Year Award 2015 by the UK Booksellers’ Association on Wednesday 11 March. It is the sixth consecutive year that the Press has claimed the title since 2010. Voted for by members of the Booksellers’ Association Academic, Professional and Specialist branch, including bookshop managers…
(20 March 2015, Beijing) – The news websites of Reuters, including those in English and Chinese, were inaccessible in China on Friday, after users first experienced difficulties accessing them late on Thursday. The websites of Bloomberg News, the New York Times and News Corp’s Wall Street Journal have all been inaccessible in China for some…
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