IEEE integrates Altmetric badge visualisations and related data into IEEE Xplore Digital Library |
Altmetrics data provider Altmetric and IEEE have announced the integration of Altmetric badge visualisations and related data into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, which is home to over 3.8 million scholarly documents. The inclusion of Altmetric badges enables authors, researchers, and other platform visitors to easily see a collated record of the online shares and discussion relating to an individual article from a variety of sources. More Search for more news in this Category |
SAGE Publishing to publish Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, expands healthcare journal portfolio |
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has begun publishing the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research (CJNR). Advancing scholarship in nursing and health care for 47 years, CJNR is an established resource for nurses, nurse researchers, students, and educators and policymakers across the globe. Pre-2016 issues of CJNR can be accessed via the open access repository at McGill University. More Search for more news in this Category |
Electronic Data Interchange available for EBSCO customers using Alto Library Management System |
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Capita are working together to make customers’ workflow more efficient. Following customer testing, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) invoicing using the EDIFACT standard is now available to EBSCO customers who use Capita’s Alto Library Management System (LMS). More Search for more news in this Category |
The Lancet selects Atypon’s Literatum platform to launch new Zika Virus microsite |
In response to the rapid spread of the Zika virus, The Lancet has launched the Zika Virus Resource Centre, a website created and managed by Literatum, The Lancet’s online publishing platform. The new site provides a single point of access to information on Zika available from The Lancet and infectious disease journals published by Elsevier. More Search for more news in this Category |
Journal of Science Teacher Education now approved for subsidies by South African authors |
The Journal of Science Teacher Education (JSTE), by virtue of its membership in Scopus (the largest database of peer reviewed journals), is now approved for subsidies by South African authors. In South Africa, and many other countries, authors receive subsidies for articles that they publish in peer-reviewed journals. More Search for more news in this Category |
Prof. Nam-Trung Nguyen appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Micromachines |
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced that Prof. Nam-Trung Nguyen has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). His appointment is effective March 1, 2016. More Search for more news in this Category |
SHARE to host free webinar for the higher education and library developer community |
SHARE is hosting a free webinar for the higher education and library developer community on March 17, 2016, at 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT. Erin Braswell from the Center for Open Science—and SHARE’s primary developer—will introduce the SHARE application programming interface (API), present how to perform queries and visualizations with the data, and discuss potential uses for the data in universities and libraries, such as querying the data set for new research from your institution. More Search for more news in this Category |
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ernesto Priego (Open Access Reinterpreted); Roger C. Schonfeld (Co-opting “Official” Channels through Infrastructures for Openness); Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar (The role of ego in academic profile services: Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID); Benedikt Fecher and Gert G. Wagner (Credit where credit is due: Research parasites and tackling misconceptions about academic data sharing); and Simon Oxenham (The Academic Publishing Scandal in Two Minutes). 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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