Acquisition of Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science Business by Onex and Baring Asia completed The previously announced sale of the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business to Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia has been completed. The company’s many well-known brands include Web of ScienceTM, CortellisTM, Thomson InnovationTM, Derwent World Patents IndexTM,… Read More »
Elsevier to publish The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety STM publisher Elsevier and Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (JCR), a non-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission, have announced that Elsevier will be the new publisher of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS), effective January 1, 2017. For the past… Read More »
Taxonomy Boot Camp London scheduled for October 18-19, 2016 The first Taxonomy Boot Camp London will be held from October 18-19, 2016, at the Olympia Conference Centre, London. Taxonomy Book Camp London is a brand new conference designed to walk you through every aspect of embedding taxonomies in your organisation. From fundamentals like understanding their… Read More »
Scope e-Knowledge Center to exhibit at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, is pleased to announce its participation at the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair from October 19 – 23, 2016. Scope will welcome attendees to Booth # L88, Hall 4.2. Scope… Read More »
Springer Nature and China’s Publishing House of Electronics Industry sign strategic partnership agreement Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with China’s Publishing House of Electronics Industry (PHEI) to publish English-language book series and journals to promote China’s technical expertise in the fields of electronic information and… Read More »
Elsevier announces winners of 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize STM publisher Elsevier has announced the three winners of the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize at its annual Symposium held in conjunction with the New Scientist Live festival in London. Celebrating top research by leading young chemists across the globe, the Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes innovative and original… Read More »
Digital Science and ÜberResearch to sponsor ORCID’s next Outreach Meeting: Research Without Borders Digital Science and ÜberResearch will be sponsoring ORCID’s next Outreach Meeting. The theme of the meeting is, ‘Research Without Borders.’ The event is scheduled for October 5, 2016, at the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New… Read More »
Springer’s online platform SpringerLink celebrates its 20th anniversary with 10 million documents Now in its 20th year, SpringerLink, the comprehensive online delivery platform created by global publisherSpringer, has reached a total of 10 million documents. Founded in 1996, SpringerLink paved the way for the publisher’s transition from traditional print media to electronic publishing. SpringerLink was… Read More »
Elsevier to introduce new orthopaedic books at American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting 2016 STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will introduce five hand surgery books and several other new leading orthopaedic texts, at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) Annual Meeting, September 29th through October 1st, 2016… Read More »
New ‘results free’ peer-review process to be piloted for academic publishing The open access journal, BMC Psychology, has announced it will launch the first ever randomised controlled trial to find out if a ‘results free’ peer-review process can help reduce publication bias. The trial will start with an initial pilot phase where the first 10… Read More »