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 Medical online content sales to surpass books in 2018, says new Simba Information report
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report titled ‘Global Medical Publishing 2017-2021.’ The report notes that online content continues to grow faster than all other channels – faster than the largest category journals and much faster than books. The report outlines the strategies publishers, individually and collectively, will pursue in this environment of constant change.
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 Italian National Agency for University and Research Systems Evaluations selects Elsevier’s Scopus data for national research assessment
Elsevier has announced that the Italian National Agency for University and Research Systems Evaluations (ANVUR) has selected Scopus as its bibliometric data provider for the review and assessment process of a specific national research funding initiative, known as the Fund for Financing Basic Research Activities (“Fondo Finanziamento Attivita Base di Ricerca”). This funding project represents a first of its kind special initiative undertaken by the Italian government for which it is making an additional 45 million Euros available for research funding for Italian researchers.
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 Clarivate Analytics partners with the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics as ISSI 2017 conference sponsor
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has announced its partnership with the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) as one of two sponsors of its ISSI 2017 conference which will be held at Wuhan University, China from October 17 – 20. The ISSI 2017 Conferences provide an International forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as other professionals related to the fields of information and communication science, to share research and debate the new advancements of Informetrics and Scientometrics theories and applications.
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 Wiley names Brian A. Napack as President and CEO
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced that Brian A. Napack has been named its new President and CEO, effective December 4. Napack succeeds Matthew Kissner, who has served as interim CEO since May of 2017. Kissner, a 14-year veteran of Wiley’s Board of Directors, will remain as Chairman.
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 Wolters Kluwer published text receives British Medical Association’s ‘Medical Book of the Year 2017’ honour
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that ‘Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care: A Practical Guide, 6th Edition’ by Lawrence S Neinstein, Debra K Katzman, S Todd Callahan, Catherine M Gordon, Alain Joffe and Vaughn I Rickert, was named the British Medical Association (BMA) Book of the Year for 2017. Eight Lippincott published titles were also recognised as first-prize winners or highly commended in their categories.
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 SPIE partners with Code Ocean to increase research transparency and reproducibility
Not-for-profit publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, now enables journal authors to share code through its new partnership with Code Ocean, an open platform that improves transparency and computational reproducibility to advance scientific research and invention. Authors publishing journal articles advancing light-based technologies in the SPIE Digital Library now have the option to include links to the executable code.
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 IOP Publishing extends Altmetric integration to deliver real-time attention data for books
IOP Publishing has announced the extension of its Altmetric integration, to provide the latest insights on the attention surrounding book titles to authors, readers, and internal teams. Access to the data, which is captured and updated in real-time, will enable authors, readers, and editors to see where books are being reviewed, included in syllabi, or mentioned in the mainstream and social media.
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