EBSCO Information Services and AAAS announce expanded distribution agreement EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)have reached an expanded distribution agreement allowing EBSCO to sell AAAS journals, including Science, via the AAAS platform. The arrangement will also allow libraries to purchase Science through Flipster, EBSCO’s digital newsstand. More… Read More »
Elsevier publishes six new forensic science titles STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Forensic Investigations: An Introduction by Brent E. Turvey and Stan Crowder. Using cases from the authors’ extensive files, it provides an overview of major subjects related to forensic inquiry and evidence examination. The book will prepare criminal justice and criminology… Read More »
New report on the current state of the OA publishing market evaluates the range of policy options available to increase access and enhance competition and sustainability Research Consulting, within the scope of the OpenAIRE Work Package dealing with the FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot (WP5), was commissioned by LIBER in October 2016 to undertake… Read More »
NFAIS Half-Day Virtual Workshop – Beyond the PDF: Emerging Trends in Next Generation Articles The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will be conducting a Half-Day Virtual Workshop, Beyond the PDF: Emerging Trends in Next Generation Articles, on March 23, 2017 from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm (EDT). This workshop will benefit scholarly researchers,… Read More »
Clarivate Analytics announces the ‘Eugene Garfield Information Sciences Pioneer Award’ to honour Dr. Eugene Garfield’s legacy to Information Sciences Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the creation of the ‘Eugene Garfield Information Sciences Pioneer Award’ to honour the legacy of Dr. Eugene Garfield, the visionary founder of… Read More »
Two new titles join Nature Research journals portfolio Two new titles will join the Nature Research journals portfolio in January 2018 – Nature Catalysis and Nature Electronics. They will open for submissions in the spring of 2017. The journals will be online-only and subscription-based. They will be included in Springer Nature’s SharedIt content sharing initiative,… Read More »
Evidence-based characteristics could help authors recognize predatory journals A study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine identifies 13 evidence-based characteristics by which potential predatory journals may be distinguished from presumed legitimate ones. While the characteristics identified in this study may not be sensitive enough to detect all potentially predatory journals, the authors hope… Read More »
New report on digital transformation in publishing finds slow advancement in digital transformation, high emphasis on metadata investment An in-depth study analyzing digital transformation in the publishing industry has found that 25 percent of publishers see themselves as “lagging” versus the rest of the industry in their current transformation efforts, while only 25 percent feel… Read More »
Elsevier announces publication of five new microtechnology and nanotechnology titles STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Functionalized Nanomaterials for the Management of Microbial Infection: A Strategy to Address Microbial Drug Resistance edited by Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits and Djamel Drider. Elsevier also announced the publication of four additional microtechnology and nanotechnology books. More… Read More »
Springer Nature’s new semantic platform with Linked Open Data to serve the needs of the research community Publisher Springer Nature is giving a boost to researchers with the launch of its new Springer Nature SciGraph. The new Linked Open Data (LOD) platform aggregates data sources from Springer Nature and cooperating partners, making it easier to… Read More »