Elsevier wins eight PROSE Awards categories, including Award for Excellence, and nine honorable mentions STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has won top honours in eight 2016 PROSE Awards categories, including a PROSE Award for Excellence, and nine honourable mentions. The 40th annual PROSE Awards – the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly… Read More »
Elsevier announces 2016 list of China’s most cited researchers STM publisher Elsevier has announced its 2016 list of China’s most influential researchers, which is now available online (http://tinyurl.com/jycfert). This is the second edition of Elsevier’s annual list of Most Cited Chinese Researchers, recognising 1,744 researchers in China across 38 different subject areas. More Search for… Read More »
Wiley and Dutch universities announce combined open access and subscription agreement Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) have announced an agreement of unlimited open access publication of Dutch academic articles combined with expanded subscription access to high-quality research. The negotiations between VSNU and Wiley resulted in… Read More »
Swiss patients and healthcare practitioners gain access to the Cochrane Library Swiss patients and healthcare practitioners will now have access to over 6500 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions through one-click access to the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library is a leading resource in evidence-based research across areas including pregnancy, mental health, surgical procedures and… Read More »
Springer Nature appoints Rachel Burley as Publishing Director, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the appointment of Rachel Burley to the role of Publishing Director, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen, effective February 1, 2016. Her responsibilities will include all of BioMed Central and SpringerOpen’s editorial and commercial… Read More »
Copyright in publishing will be a key theme at the International Publishers Congress in April 2016 Francis Gurry, Director General of Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation, is confirmed to speak at the 31st International Publishers Congress in London in April 2016. He will speak on a panel chaired by Paul Doda, Chair of the IPA… Read More »
Sentri7® solution receives Category Leader award for Clinical Decision Support-Surveillance in 2015/2016 Best in KLAS report The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that its Sentri7® solution has received the 2015/2016 Category Leader award for Clinical Decision Support-Surveillance in the… Read More »
Bowker and Digi-Rights® offer new mobile app to protect authors’ and publishers’ works from piracy and illegal copyright infringement Digi-Rights, creators of the CopyrightsNowTM service, an innovative mobile app that simplifies copyright registration and protection for creative works, is teaming with ProQuest affiliate Bowker to expand access to CopyrightsNowTM for iPhone®, iPad®, and Android® phones… Read More »
SAGE Publishing and Kudos announce extended agreement Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced an extended partnership with Kudos, an online service for authors, to include all content from SAGE’s more than 900 journals. SAGE began a pilot program with Kudos in 2015 and following the success has extended the agreement to two years. By enabling… Read More »
Outsell, Inc. publishes new report on text and data mining Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced the publication of a new report, Text and Data Mining: Technologies Under Construction. The report takes a close look at how scientific research, engineering, and healthcare are currently deploying text and data mining (TDM), and what the… Read More »