IOP Publishing and APS commit to ORCID scheme IOP Publishing and the American Physical Society (APS) have signed up to the ORCID Open Letter, committing to collecting ORCID iDs for authors submitting to their journals following stated best practices. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) claims to be a not-for-profit organisation that provides a unique digital name, or iD, which… Read More »
American Psychological Association upgrades APA PsycNET content delivery platform The American Psychological Association has upgraded APA PsycNET, its content delivery platform, to strengthen overall search and to help researchers find the most relevant psychology-related content with greater ease and precision. The improvements include responsive web design, enhanced functionality and a powerful technology upgrade. More Search for more… Read More »
Wiley posts strong performance in 2017 Journal Citation Reports Wiley’s performance in the 2017 release of Clarivate Analytics’ Journal Citation Reports (JCR) remains strong, maintaining its position as #3 in terms of the number of titles indexed, articles published and citations received. Overall, 1,214 Wiley journals were included in the reports (+9 from last year), of which 57%… Read More »
Wiley and International AIDS Society announce new publishing partnership Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with the International AIDS Society (IAS) to publish their fully open access journal – Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). JIAS is well-established with an Impact Factor of 6.296, and all articles in the journal are open access… Read More »
American Oil Chemists’ Society and Wiley announce new publishing partnership Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced that it has been selected by the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) as publishing partner for its scholarly journals in the science and technology of oils, fats, surfactants and related materials. Founded in 1909, AOCS is an international professional… Read More »
London Info International announces new webinar in collaboration with Clarivate Analytics London Info International in collaboration with Clarivate Analytics has announced a webinar – What makes a world class university? The event is scheduled for July 20, 16.00 CEST, 15.00 BST, 10.00 EST. In this webinar Dr Jamil Salmi poses the question What makes a world class university?… Read More »
CAS announces 2017 SciFinder Future Leaders CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the 2017 SciFinder Future Leaders. Twenty-five international Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers will visit CAS headquarters in Columbus, OH, this August to collaborate on new initiatives to support the scientific community, including the latest CAS workflow solution, SciFindern. More… Read More »
Improved functionality on Taylor & Francis Online makes research more discoverable Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has announced several new updates to the Taylor & Francis Online journals platform. It is the first significant refresh to the platform since its relaunch in August 2016, with the Group continuing to incorporate customer feedback to improve the user… Read More »
Joint Consortia Framework ranks ProQuest as key supplier for print and ebooks ProQuest has been ranked highly in every print and ebook category for the Joint Consortia Framework Agreement in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. These rankings come on the heels of major innovations in the ProQuest® OASIS® and Ebook Central® platforms, and recognises ProQuest’s… Read More »
Wiley and The Society for Leukocyte Biology announce publishing partnership John Wiley and Sons, Inc., a global company, and The Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) have announced a publishing partnership for SLB’s flagship scholarly publication, Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). From January 2018, Wiley will assume publishing responsibility for JLB and move the journal to its online… Read More »