Wiley journals increase Impact Factors in 2015 Journal Citation Reports Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced an increase in impact factors across more than half of its indexed titles. According to the 2015 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), recently released by Thomson Reuters, 58% of Wiley journals increased their impact factor from 2014 to… Read More »
Search Alert: 113 new results Your search alert called “UCD/UCDMC” has found 113 new results on Scopus. | View all new results in Scopus First 25 of 113 results Document Author(s) Date Source Title 1 . Fabrication and characterization of low-cost and green vacuum insulation panels with fumed silica/rice husk ash hybrid core material Li, C.-D.,… Read More »
Nature Research in deal with Beijing Technology and Business University and IUFoST to co-publish OA journal npj Science of Food Nature Research, part of Springer Nature, has announced an agreement with Beijing Technology and Business University and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) to co-publish the high-impact, open access journal npj Science… Read More »
UK wide survey cites the growing importance of online libraries to academics The 2015 survey of academics, jointly commissioned by Jisc and RLUK and conducted by research organisation Ithaka S+R, has revealed a substantial increase in the way academics use and value online libraries. According to the report, 88% of researchers now see their university… Read More »
ChemZent, the first English-searchable version of Chemische Zentralblatt, now available in SciFinder CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has introduced ChemZent, a new solution available for purchase in SciFinder. ChemZent delivers the complete collection of approximately three million abstracts from Chemisches Zentralblatt, the oldest compendium of chemistry abstracts dating from 1830-1969. More Search… Read More »
As part of its 25th anniversary vision-setting process, the arXiv team at Cornell University Library conducted a user survey in April 2016 to seek input from the global user community about current services and future directions. They received 36,000 responses: https://confluence.cornell.edu/x/I4UMF
Springer and Palgrave Macmillan journals announce increased number of journals in JCR The 2016 update of the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) lists a total of 1,681 Springer journals among its numbers. This figure includes the Palgrave Macmillan journals which are now hosted on the online platform SpringerLink. A total of 52 percent of… Read More »
Elsevier unveils eight alternative and renewable energy books at ASME Power & Energy Conference & Exhibition STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources by Trevor Letcher, a comprehensive volume covering the various types of renewable energy storage for engineers and scientists. This up-to-date book on… Read More »
Search Alert: 106 new results Your search alert called “UCD/UCDMC” has found 106 new results on Scopus. | View all new results in Scopus First 25 of 106 results Document Author(s) Date Source Title 1 . The migration response to increasing temperatures Cattaneo, C., Peri, G. 2016 Journal of Development Economics , 122 pp. 127 –… Read More »
EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost users can now visualize altmetrics from Plum Analytics EBSCO Information Services has announced that the overall research experience for users of EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM and EBSCOhost® databases is improving with the addition of altmetrics data from PlumTM Analytics, an EBSCO company. By integrating the Plum Print widget into these platforms,… Read More »