STM opens community-wide consultation on article sharing The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has opened a communitywide consultation into the sharing of research articles. Running from February 9 – April 10, 2015, the consultation aims to start discussion and to gain a better understanding of the current landscape of article sharing… Read More »
DynaMed’s new, improved mobile app provides physicians easy access to evidence-based content anywhere Physicians that use the clinical reference tool, DynaMedTM from EBSCO Health, can now access the valuable, evidence-based content anywhere with the new DynaMed mobile app. The new app has been redesigned to make it easier and faster for physicians to find answers… Read More »
John Wiley & Sons announces transition of three journals to Wiley Open Access publishing program Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the transition of three journals to the Wiley Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of Wiley’s open access titles to 47. From January 1, 2015, all published articles in… Read More »
Inaugural ‘2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report powered by Scopus data and SciVal analytics STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the inaugural and newly-released ‘2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report, based on Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC)’s evaluation, is anchored on its Scopus research database and powered by metrics from SciVal analytics – both part of… Read More »
PeerJ launches new OA journal – PeerJ Computer Science Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Computer Science, a cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. The journal will start accepting preprints on February 3rd and peer-review articles on February 12th, which is also PeerJ’s two-year anniversary… Read More »
ProQuest’s new integrated ebook platform to be called ProQuest Ebook Central ProQuest unveiled the name of its eagerly anticipated new ebook platform – ProQuest Ebook Central. Launching in mid-2015, ProQuest Ebook Central will integrate key elements from both ebrary and EBL – Ebook Library, along with all-new functionality, delivering a next-generation experience for researchers and… Read More »
Nature Publishing Group and The University of Queensland launch new OA journal – npj Science of Learning Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has partnered with The University of Queensland (UQ) to publish npj Science of Learning, a new open access research journal that will explore the neurobiology of learning in experimental and educational environments. UQ… Read More »
Springer assumes control of Autoimmunity Highlights journal, shifts journal to open access STM publisher Springer has assumed control of the journal Autoimmunity Highlights, which was previously owned by A. Menarini Diagnostics, an Italian company. In doing so Springer has also elected to make the journal an open access (OA) publication, which will allow for its… Read More »
The Following Lectures Were Published in December and are included in Collection Six Combating Bad Weather Part I: Rain Removal from Video Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur Abhishek Kumar Tripathi, Uurmi Systems Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing Combating Bad Weather Part II: Fog Removal from Image and Video Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur Abhishek… Read More »
ProQuest, University of Michigan Library and Bodleian Libraries provide 25,000 early modern books as open access text The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the acclaimed ProQuest resource Early English Books Online (EEBO) are now openly available on the websites of the University of Michigan Library and the Bodleian Libraries at the University… Read More »