(7 September 2016) figshare has announced a partnership with Royal Society to showcase the data from eleven of their publications. Aggregated under one URL rs.figshare.com, each journal will also have its own sub portal. These new portals will increase the discoverability of their data and give them a wider oversight of what is referenced in their journals. The Royal Society is a…
(9 September 2016) OpenAIRE invites you to participate in a brief survey on attitudes to Open Peer Review: https://www.soscisurvey.de/OPR/ Your anonymous answers will be made available to the research and publishing communities to inform future innovations in peer review. The survey takes around 15-20 minutes to complete and will remain open until Friday 7th October. The…
(8 September 2016) Karger Publishers is pleased to announce that three of its titles received a ‘Highly Commended’ award at the 2016 British Medical Association’s Medical Book Awards ceremony recently held in London. The prestigious BMA Medical Book Competition takes place annually to encourage and reward excellence in medical publishing. Prizes are awarded in 21…
(7 September 2016) OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association has announce that membership has reached the 100 mark. OASPA continues to receive much interest and support from organisations wanting to join as members and is growing steadily as a result. Its membership includes a wide range of individual academic-led titles, small, medium and large…
(6 September 2016) Cambridge Core is the new academic online platform from Cambridge University Press. It is a sophisticated, high-performing replacement for existing platforms, Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) and Cambridge Books Online (CBO). For the first time, all Cambridge online books and journals are available in one place for institutional access and purchase. All content…
(30 August 2016) The rising number of predatory journals has become a major blight on academic publishing, deceiving authors, their institutions, and the wider scientific community. And now the federal government is fighting back, writes Paul Basken in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in its first such foray into academic…
(24 August 2016) The 2016 edition of CAB Thesaurus – the largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences – was published today. It provides a controlled vocabulary resource of nearly 2.5 million descriptive terms. CAB Thesaurus is an essential tool for academic, corporate and government librarians, who need to navigate, retrieve and index…
(21 August 2016, Columbus, OH) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), announced today that SciFindern will be available Spring 2017. This powerful solution will provide new and unique authoritative content, superior functionality and enhanced workflow features to help researchers be exponentially more productive. SciFindern is made possible by the global network of…
(10 August 2016, Washington) The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its intention to form ChemRxiv, a chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, proposed as a collaborative undertaking that will facilitate the open dissemination of important scientific findings. The Society is presently in the process of inviting interested stakeholders to participate in helping…
(19 August 2016) The international scholarly publisher Brill has adopted two libraries in Indonesia as part of its Adopt a Library Program. Last year Indonesia was Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, celebrating the theme ‘Imagining 17,000 islands’ which lead to choosing West Kalimantan and South Sulawesi in Indonesia as two islands to…
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