October IEEE & MIT Press Books – eBook Alert

by rheyer Posted on November 3, 2014

 

 

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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on November 3, 2014
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing, says NPG/ Palgrave Macmillan survey
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and its sister company, Palgrave Macmillan, recently conducted a survey, which notes that the open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But most academic research remains behind expensive paywalls, which decreases its reach for the public who often fund the work.
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Board of Trustees of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., announce new leadership at STRIATUS/JBJS
The Board of Trustees of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., has announced new leadership at STRIATUS/JBJS. Mady Tissenbaum, formerly Associate Publisher and General Manager, has stepped into the role of Publisher, while Paul Sandford, formerly the Chief Financial Officer, will serve as CEO. STRIATUS produces a family of print and online publications and learning products.
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BMJ now exclusive sales channel for nursing titles as RCN Publishing’s aggregated services come to an end
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ is now the exclusive sales channel for institutional customers outside the UK wanting access to leading nursing titles for RCN Publishing journals. Going forward, BMJ will be the exclusive international sales channel for all 10 RCN Publishing owned titles, including its flagship journal, Nursing Standard.
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SAGE launches new open access journal, Translational Epigenomics
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Translational Epigenomics, a new open access journal publishing research on epigenetic alterations in gene expression. Dr. Gaurang S. Daftary will serve as the journal’s Editor-In-Chief. Now open for submissions, Translational Epigenomics will focus on translational applicability and relevance of the research findings to health and disease.
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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons release new clinical practice guidelines for treating cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has released new clinical practice guidelines for treating cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction (area where the esophagus meets the stomach). STS’ Clinical Practice Guidelines are intended to assist physicians and other healthcare providers in clinical decision making by describing a range of generally acceptable approaches for the diagnosis, management, or prevention of specific diseases or conditions.
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SCOAP3 webinar to outline achievements, status and future plans of the initiative
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) is hosting a webinar on November 18, 2014 to outline the achievements to date, discuss the status of the initiative and its future plans. Participation is free, but for technical reasons it is advised to register in advance at http://indico.cern.ch/e/SCOAP3webinar.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Andrew Harding (What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome); Rick Anderson (Feeding the Goose: Thoughts on Fair Use and the GSU Decision); Wayne Bivens-Tatum (What I Want from Library Ebooks | Peer to Peer Review); Mike Masnick (How Publishers & Copyright Gave Amazon The Very Power That Publishers Now Hate); and Joseph Esposito (The Size of the Open Access Market). 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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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 31, 2014
Freedom of Information requests reveal payments to main journal publishers by universities have soared
The amount paid by UK universities to subscribe to journals from some large publishers has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2010, new data suggest. The finding is based on freelance requests under the Freedom of Information Act to more than 100 universities by Ben Meghreblian, an independent researcher, and Stuart Lawson, a research analyst at Jisc Collections.
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal offers free access to special collection of articles on Ebola
The Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health recently launched a special collection of articles on the Ebola virus. These, and subsequent articles will remain freely available to all readers. Topics range from translational public health, legal preparedness and response, triage screening and a primer for clinicians.
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Wiley makes 2014 Nobel Laureates work free to access until end of the year
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. will celebrate the achievements of the 2014 Nobel laureates by making a selection of content from the 2014 winners free to access until the end of the year. Interested parties may visit the individual announcements on the Wiley Press Room to access content.
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Springer signs on as principal sponsor of ‘Trans-Tasman 3MT’ competition
STM publisher Springer has announced that it is the principal sponsor of the 2014 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which challenges students pursuing higher education degrees to turn their theses into three minute presentations. The contest provides Springer a way of encouraging early career researchers to develop an ability to communicate their work to non-scientists.
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Elsevier announces winners of 2014 Tetrahedron Prize
STM publisher Elsevier and the Executive Board of Editors of the Tetrahedron journal series have announced that the 2014 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic & Biomedicinal Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University, USA and Jiro Tsuji, Honorary professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. They jointly receive the award for their outstanding contributions to organic chemistry.
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EBSCO introduces Flipster, a new way to access digital magazines
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is introducing FlipsterTM, which allows library patrons to browse the latest issues of high quality digital versions of popular magazines, courtesy of their library. Flipster provides users easy access to digital magazines for online browsing via their desktops or any mobile device. Flipster allows libraries to give their patrons the option of accessing the content at the library or remotely.
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IET President-elect announced
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that Naomi Climer will become IET President on October 1, 2015. Naomi, currently IET Deputy President, has spent her career immersed in the rapidly changing world of media and entertainment technology from the analogue, pre-internet days of TV and radio through to the multi-channel, multi-platform, mobile experience of today.
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NTIS expands free access to federal technical reports
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) is now offering the American public free public access to a searchable online database of approximately three million federal science and technology reports. The library is a service of the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Technical Information Service.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 30, 2014
University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare selects Elsevier’s InOrder for its order sets solution
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare (UKHC), a health system with more than 80 specialised clinics throughout the state, has selected Elsevier’s InOrder for its order sets solution. The cloud-based InOrder enables clinicians, physicians and informaticists to author, review and publish orders in a collaborative environment that quickly translates evidence-based knowledge into better patient care.
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Springer partners with Peerage of Science to streamline the manuscript-to-published-article process
STM publisher Springer has joined forces with Peerage of Science to help authors more easily submit their manuscripts for consideration in Springer journals. Both sides are looking at how they can make the process easier and less time consuming, reduce the time to publication, and eliminate the need for re-submissions. The end goal is to make the work of peer review a more enriching experience for both authors and for reviewers.
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DynaMed adds 61 recently released ‘Choosing Wisely Canada’ recommendations
Choosing Wisely Canada recently released 61 recommendations that are now available in the evidence-based clinical support tool DynaMedTM from EBSCO Health. The new recommendations to avoid unnecessary tests and treatments are from 12 organisations and have been added to the Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations that previously existed in DynaMed.
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SAGE set to publish Workplace Health & Safety journal
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it will begin publishing Workplace Health & Safety (WHS), a journal that supports and promotes the practice of occupational and environmental health nursing, beginning in early 2015. The journal is the official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (AAOHN).
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New Open Access Button launched
A brand new version of the Open Access Button was launched recently at an event in London. The new Open Access Button can be downloaded from openaccessbutton.org. The apps work by harnessing the power of search engines, research repositories, automatic contact with authors, and other strategies to track down the papers that are available and present them to the user – even if they are using a mobile device.
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HathiTrust Research Center seeks proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support projects
The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a newly launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to HTRC tools and services.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 29, 2014
New PCG study shows 23 percent of libraries cover APCs for author submissions to OA journals
Marketing and sales consulting firm Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology, has released the results of a new survey, according to which, academic libraries are getting more involved in the cataloguing and funding of Gold Open Access (OA) publications. Gold Open Access, though generally understood as the freely-accessible, ‘author pays’ model, may actually be covered by sources such as grant funders, employer subsidies or institutional library budgets, the study confirmed.
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Elsevier enhances Embase to support retrieval of medical device information
STM publisher Elsevier has announced Embase, which claims to be the world’s most comprehensive biomedical database that enables tracking and retrieval of drug-specific data, has been enhanced to support the retrieval of medical device information. The improvements support comprehensive post-market surveillance and device safety as well as the development of novel devices.
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Bianca Herzog joins Springer as Trade Sales Director DACH / EMEA
Bianca Herzog has taken over as Trade Sales Director DACH / EMEA at Springer, effective October 1, 2014. In her new position, Bianca will be responsible for sales of all German-language scientific book and journal publications from the imprints of Springer Gabler, Springer Spektrum, Springer Medizin, Springer Vieweg and Springer VS.
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Wolters Kluwer Health and Philips Clinical Informatics partner to revolutionise access to clinical decision support in Brazil
Healthcare information solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced a partnership with Philips Clinical Informatics TASY electronic health records (EHR) provider to improve ease of use and encourage greater adoption of medication decision support throughout Brazil. TASY is the first system used in Brazil to integrate Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information drug data into its latest EHR release.
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AMA launches interactive new tool aimed at assisting physicians and other healthcare providers improve patient access to care
The American Medical Association (AMA) has introduced a first-of-its-kind resource aimed at helping physicians and other healthcare providers improve patient access to care. The AMA’s Health Workforce Mapper is an interactive tool that illustrates the geographic locations of the healthcare work force in each state, including health professional shortage areas, hospital locations, as well as other related workforce trends.
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IOP Publishing launches new fully responsive app for Physics World magazine
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) has launched a new fully responsive app for its world-renowned Physics World magazine. Replacing the previous ‘page-turning’ format, Physics World is now digitally optimised so that it is fully responsive in both orientations on different devices. It is available on iOS and Android and can be accessed via WebReader.
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American Society for Microbiology and UNC Charlotte’s Atkins Library deliver perpetual unlimited access to e-textbooks for authorised users
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Press and the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte have announced that they are experimenting with an innovative business model that will deliver affordable e-textbooks to students and faculty. This fall, Atkins Library purchased perpetual access to the ASM Press e-textbook, Scientific Integrity. With the cooperation of ASM Press, the library arranged to purchase unlimited concurrent user access to the title, which had been adopted for use in graduate level courses, for its students and faculty.
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Arab World Research Source now available via EBSCO
EBSCO Information Services has introduced Arab World Research SourceTM, a full-text database that delivers the coverage needed by researchers of Arab Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies. Arab World Research Source is a dedicated resource of scholarly journals, quality magazines, trade publications, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports and conference papers related to the Arab World.
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Delft University of Technology selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced that Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library management system. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) provide cloud-based library management and discovery applications in an integrated suite, offering librarians a comprehensive and cost-effective way to manage library workflows efficiently, and improve access to library collections and services.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 28, 2014
Free global access to Ebola resources from Oxford University Press extended and updated
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced that it is extending and updating global free access to Ebola resources through the end of 2015 as the crisis has deepened. Following the World Health Organization’s declaration of an international public health emergency in August, the Press offered three months’ free access to 50 articles across its online products and journals to researchers, healthcare workers, and policymakers in their search for effective treatment and prevention in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Almost immediately, the Press began updating with new resources as they became available.
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Elsevier launches Open Access journal Biomolecular Detection and Quantification
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal Biomolecular Detection and Quantification (BDQ). Published quarterly online and open access, BDQ is dedicated to championing excellence in molecular biology-based study design, measurement, data analyses and reporting.
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Wolters Kluwer Health and AAACN in deal to add ambulatory care nursing to Lippincott Procedures
Wolters Kluwer Health has entered into an agreement with the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) to develop a new ambulatory care nursing category for Lippincott Procedures, the leading procedures software used by nurses and other clinicians at the point-of-care and in competency management. Ambulatory care nurses care for patients in a variety of diverse outpatient settings and, according to AAACN, are becoming an increasingly important means of coordinating care and managing transitions as America searches for more cost-effective approaches to quality healthcare.
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East Central University in Oklahoma implements EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that East Central University (ECU) has chosen EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) as its discovery service. With relevancy-ranked results, an abundant amount of customisation options and a comprehensive one-stop discovery experience, EDS is a tool that allows ECU students to focus on the quality of the information found rather than spending time and energy on searching multiple resources.
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Taylor & Francis and IMarEST announce new publishing partnership
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group and the IMarEST (Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology) have announced a new publishing partnership for 2015. Under the deal Taylor & Francis will publish and distribute the IMarEST’s highly regarded journals Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology (JMET) and Journal of Operational Oceanography (JOO), beginning January.
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Science Publications and Bentham Science Publishers to preserve e-journals with Portico
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Science Publications and Bentham Science Publishers will be preserving their e-journals with Portico. With this move, the publishers seek to ensure that their content will be secure and available into the future.
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NISO launches Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) standing committee
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the next phase for the Open Discovery Initiative, a project that explores community interactions in the realm of indexed discovery services. Following the working group’s recommendation to create an ongoing standing committee as outlined in the published recommended practice, Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (NISO RP-19-2014), NISO has formed a new standing committee reflecting a balance of stakeholders, with member representation from content providers, discovery providers, and libraries.
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Ex Libris Group appoints Steven Savaglio as new Director of Support for Ex Libris North America
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the appointment of Steven Savaglio as director of support for Ex Libris North America. Savaglio comes to Ex Libris from IBM, where he held senior management positions for the past five years.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 27, 2014
Industry Veteran Punit Dhandhania joins Scope e-Knowledge Center as Strategic Advisor
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the appointment of Punit Dhandhania as strategic advisor. Punit Dhandhania is a business leader with over 25 years of experience working for global publishers. Pioneering the outsourcing of high quality services to publishers in India, Punit has worked with publishers such as Oxford University Press, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Cambridge University Press, Lexis-Nexis, Hachette, Larousse and many others.
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Dr. Barbara A. Zehnbauer appointed new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
The editorial direction of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (JMD) is transferring to the stewardship of respected molecular pathologist Dr. Barbara A. Zehnbauer, beginning January 1, 2015. Dr. Zehnbauer serves the public at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, where she is Chief of the Laboratory Research and Evaluation Branch in the Division of Laboratory Programs, Standards, and Services.
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SAGE to publish The Journal of Intensive Care from February 2015
Academic publisher SAGE and The Intensive Care Society have announced a new agreement to publish its flagship title, The Journal of the Intensive Care Society as of February 2015. The journal, edited by Dr Jonathan Handy, is the official journal of the UK Intensive Care Society. The first SAGE issue will publish in February 2015.
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University of California Press enters open access space, announces plans to roll out two open access products
University of California Press is entering into the Open Access space with the launch of two new products – a mega journal focused on three core disciplines (life and biomedical sciences, ecology and environmental science, and social and behavioral sciences) and a monograph program designed to take advantage of rich, digital formats. Rollout for both products is planned for 2015.
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Thieme expands open access publishing program, unveils Ultrasound International Open journal
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced the latest addition to their open access publishing program, Ultrasound International Open (UIO). Edited by an international group of ultrasound experts, this open access journal covers the field of interdisciplinary ultrasound in medicine and biology and will publish four times a year starting in 2015.
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Bookbuilders of Boston name winners of first New England Publishing Collaboration Awards
Bookbuilders of Boston recently named the winners of the first New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards. From a pool of ten finalists, NEPCo judges October Ivins (Ivins eContent Solutions), Eduardo Moura (Jones & Bartlett Learning), Alen Yen (iFactory), and Judith Rosen of Publishers Weekly selected Inera, Inc., collaborating with CrossRef, for the first place.
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HighWire Press names Louise Page as VP President Business Development and Publisher Relations
HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers, has announced that it is consolidating the business development and publisher relations teams into a comprehensive publisher services organisation led by Louise Page. Under Louise’s leadership, the new market‐facing team will draw on HighWire’s core strengths, enabling them to innovate with greater speed and organizational efficiency in the constantly evolving field of digital publishing.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Old and Stale? – Aging Researchers, Funding Trends, and the Doughnut Effect); Joe Wikert (The marketing tool every publisher undervalues); Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (Data Descriptors: Providing the necessary information to make data open, discoverable and reusable); Phil Davis (PeerJ Grows Steadily With Papers, Authors); and Bryony Graham (The theory and the practice: what open access publishing means to an early career researcher). 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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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 24, 2014
New reference series from Elsevier provides latest knowledge on highly prevalent medical conditions
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of Clinics Collections, the first of a new series of multidisciplinary, general medical reference digests targeted to a wide variety of healthcare practitioners and professionals. Clinics Collections integrates updated content from Clinics Review Articles to provide a succinct and current overview of specific, highly prevalent medical conditions and significant medical developments.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and ReadCube announce platform-wide integration of ReadCube Checkout technology across all Wiley journals
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and ReadCube, a Boston-based publisher technology company, have announced the platform-wide integration of ReadCube Checkout technology across all Wiley journals. Following the successful pilot of ReadCube Checkout earlier this year, Wiley now offers rental, cloud and downloadable article access options for the majority of journal articles – offering individual readers the choice to select the level of access that best fits their needs.
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Springer Healthcare unveils reprintsWarehouse.com for pharmaceutical professionals
Springer Healthcare, specialists in delivering innovative medical content and communications solutions, has announced the launch of reprintsWarehouse.com. The responsive platform enables pharmaceutical professionals to rapidly identify content that supports their product or device marketing activities, from a database of over 50,000 clinically relevant medical journals, books, continuing medical education materials and anatomical charts.
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EBSCO expands partnership with OpenAthens to provide single sign-on solution
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is making it possible for organisations to provide their users with a single access portal though which they can discover and seamlessly access all library resources regardless of where that content is located. EBSCO has expanded its partnership with OpenAthens from Eduserv to provide a single sign-on solution which allows users to avoid using multiple passwords to log in to the organisation’s accounts.
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Nominations are now open for The BMJ Awards 2015
Nominations are now open for The BMJ Awards 2015, an annual competition now in its seventh year and firmly established as the UK medical profession’s Oscar ceremony, celebrating outstanding achievement and leadership in many fields. The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony on May 6, 2015 at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel in London attended by the most influential people in UK medicine.
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Wyoming Medical Center selects ProVation Medical Software for structured cardiology reporting and coding
Healthcare information solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Wyoming Medical Center has selected its ProVation Medical software for structured reporting and coding in its cardiac catheterisation labs. ProVation MD Cardiology claims to be the only dedicated structured reporting and coding solution that improves clinical communication and efficiency within and outside the cath lab.
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Rollins College opts for Ex Libris Alma and Primo
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Rollins College, a historic private liberal arts institution in Florida, has opted for the Ex Libris Alma unified resource management solution and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. The migration to Alma and Primo will enable Rollins to consolidate library management and discovery into one platform.
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Sven Fund leaves De Gruyter
Academic publisher De Gruyter is reorganising its management board. In the future, the management board will consist of just two managing directors. As part of this change, Dr. Sven Fund will depart from the company. The two remaining managing directors, Dr. Anke Beck and Carsten Buhr, will take over the responsibilities formerly assumed by Sven Fund.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 23, 2014
Elsevier launches first virtualized medical institution on PracticeUpdate
STM publisher Elsevier recently announced the launch of the first virtual Center of Excellence focused on a single disease, renal cell carcinoma. The knowledge-sharing site for physicians was created by PracticeUpdate, Elsevier’s physician portal, in partnership with The West Cancer Center at the University of Tennessee.
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Springer and Baden-Wuerttemberg Consortium sign agreement for access to 1,917 Springer e- journals
Starting January 2015, researchers, faculty members and students affiliated with colleges and universities in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg will have convenient access to 1,917 electronic journals published by Springer. The license will continue through the end of 2017. Furthermore, the state has purchased permanent archival rights to these journals back to 2003 for inclusion in the Baden-Wuerttemberg Archive.
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Kudos and Thomson Reuters partner to add citation data to author dashboards
Kudos, which helps researchers and institutions maximise the impact and visibility of their publications, has announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters through which Kudos author dashboards will be augmented with citation data from Web of Science, the premier web-based platform for scientific search and discovery and the authority in science, social science, and arts and humanities indices. Kudos provides a platform through which academics can ensure their work is more widely visible, and for measuring the effect of different activities that support discovery.
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Nature Publishing Group joins OASPA
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association which represents the interests of open access publishers in all academic disciplines. NPG publishes 73 journals with an open access option, and 38 percent of the research articles published by NPG last year were immediately open access under Creative Commons licenses.
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Webinar on Libraries, Researchers and ORCID scheduled for October 30
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced a forthcoming webinar on Libraries, Researchers and ORCID. This webinar will explore the ways that libraries can support researchers in creating and using their ORCID iDs. The webinar will be held on October 30th, at 0800 (New York), 1300 (London, Lisbon), 1400 (Paris, Warsaw), 1900 (Beijing), 2000 (Tokyo).
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Unbound Medicine releases Ebola Guidelines, a new resource available as part of the free Relief Central mobile app
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the release of Ebola Guidelines, a new resource available as part of the free Relief Central mobile app. Ebola Guidelines consolidates and organises the latest diagnosis, management, and prevention recommendations from leading sources such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic (ABX) Guide.
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Frontiers unveils new OA journal – Frontiers in ICT
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in ICT, an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal that brings all specialisms across information and communications technologies together on a single platform. From big data to digital health and quantum computing to digital education, each relevant specialty will be led by dedicated team of international researchers.
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Cambridge University Press and the BSHS announce publishing partnership
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) have announced their partnership to launch a new, peer-reviewed, open access, thematic journal, for the history of science. A call for proposals for the first volume of BJHS Themes has been released, seeking thematic collections of papers that animate, provoke and inspire the scholarly community.
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Synthesis Update from Morgan & Claypool Publishers

by rheyer Posted on October 23, 2014

The following titles were published in September.

 

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