 PA and IPG to launch revised charter, website and network for Equality in Publishing scheme |
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The Publishers Association (PA) and the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) will launch a revised charter, website and network for the Equality in Publishing (Equip) scheme next week, with the aim of attracting the best people possible into the industry. As well as the renewed charter, which aims to ‘create a network of businesses with a commitment to equality and diversity in publishing’, and website, Equip is also staging a series of events over the coming months to discuss diversity in publishing. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Elsevier set to publish ESCMID’s flagship journals |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced an agreement with the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) to publish its flagship journals, Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) and New Microbes & New Infections (NMNI), beginning January 1, 2015. Established in 1995, CMI is widely recognized as one of the premier international journals in the field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
 SAGE journals report strong performance in 2013 Citation Reports |
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Academic and professional publisher SAGE has reported strong performance across its journals portfolio in the 2013 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Thomson Reuters, 2014). SAGE continues to experience consistent growth in its coverage in the reports, with 470 JCR-indexed journals. This illustrates a 55 percent increase over the past five years – a 47 percent increase in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and an 85 percent increase in the Science Citation Index (SCI), with SCI having significantly increased as a result of the acquisition of the Royal Society of Medicine’s 28 journals in 2012. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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OCLC awarded IMLS grant to help libraries continue to support community health initiatives |
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded OCLC a grant to continue work helping libraries support health information initiatives in their communities. In July 2013,OCLC received an IMLS grant to increase libraries’ ability to respond to customer health information needs, launching the ‘Health Happens in Libraries ‘program. IMLS is supporting an expansion of that effort with a $199,050 grant to OCLC. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Dr. Meredith Niles appointed to PLOS Board of Directors |
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Open-access journal PLOS (Public Library of Science) has announced that Dr. Meredith Niles will join the PLOS Board of Directors, effective September 5, 2014. PLOS will benefit from her significant expertise in legislative affairs, her passion for Open Access and her experience as a working scientist. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Publisher Adam Matthew to release 3D Energy Data Visualization Tool for 30-day free access |
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Adam Matthew, an award winning publisher of digital primary source collections for the humanities and social sciences, is enabling free public access for one month to its innovative ‘Energy Data Visualisation Tool’, which uses the latest web-based information visualisation techniques to represent a vast array of data on global energy use. Users will now be able to access global energy reserves, production and consumption data and explore the huge growth in renewables between 1965 and 2012. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
| The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (The Arms Race in Journals Publishing Heats Up); Christopher Lortie (The citation revolution will not be televised: the end of papers and the rise of data); Jon Tennant (AAAS Chooses Not To Advance Open Access); and Kent Anderson (Well, Blow Me Down — A Tale of Spinach, Citations, Nutrition, Epistemology, and Cognitive Ease). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. |
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