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. More… Read More »
NPG and Palgrave Macmillan make data from Author Insights survey publicly available as part of Open Access Week Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. NPG and Palgrave Macmillan are making this anonymised… Read More »
International Open Access Week shines spotlight on increasing the impact of scientific research Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power that Open Access has to increase the impact of scientific and scholarly research during the seventh annual Open Access Week taking place from October 20-26, 2014. This year’s theme… Read More »
Elsevier launches Mosby’s Home Health Care STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of Mosby’s Home Health Care. This resource combines trusted home healthcare nursing content with convenient competency management functionality to provide a single comprehensive resource for home healthcare nurses, nurse educators and other home care professionals. More Search for more news in this… Read More »
New Google Scholar study examines the growing impact of non-elite journals The world of scholarly communication has witnessed immense changes over the last decade and Google Scholar has been a part of the change. To mark its 10th anniversary, Scholar will explore the impact of these changes – looking at how scholarship and citation patterns… Read More »
John Wiley & Sons’ new online tool simplifies management of open access funds for institutions and funders Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of the Wiley Open Access Account Dashboard, an online tool that simplifies management of open access funds for institutions and funders. The Account Dashboard is now available for… Read More »
Thomson Reuters and CCC collaboration to advance OA publishing The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to streamline the Open Access publishing workflow with an integrated solution for article processing charges (APCs) through ScholarOne Manuscripts. CCC’s RightsLink for Open Access will integrate into ScholarOne… Read More »
Nobel Laureates’ publications now open for free access in SPIE Digital Library Research papers published by six 2014 Nobel Prize recipients whose accomplishments in physics and chemistry have been enabled by photonics are being made freely available in the SPIE Digital Library through the end of 2014. The innovations recognized for this year’s Nobel prizes… Read More »
Day 3: Frankfurt Book Fair highlights The fifth edition of StoryDrive will celebrate the heroes in and behind the story. Speakers include Cyber-Philosopher Alexander Bard, Publisher Michael Bhaskar, Best-Selling Author Reif Larsen, script writer Stefano Bises and many more. Perspectives in Education: “Across Boundaries – an Education Melting Pot”: CEOs of various international educational publishing… Read More »
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 – Day 2 highlights On the second day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, EDP Open, the Open access arm of EDP Sciences, released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 Learned societies and results were further supplemented… Read More »