Registrations now open for 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has announced that registration is now open for the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) which will be held in the Trippenhuis at The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, September… Read More »
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. launches six-month pilot program in partnership with F1000Research Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of a six-month pilot program in partnership with F1000Research. The pilot offers authors whose articles do not meet the specific criteria for publication in five Wiley journals the option to submit their… Read More »
SpringerOpen expands Japanese society open access journals portfolio Surgical Case Reports is now being published by SpringerOpen and it will soon be joined by JA Clinical Reports and IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications. The addition of these journals to the portfolio adds to the growing number of Japanese society open access journals published… Read More »
Elsevier DirectCourse collaborates with CQL, The Council on Quality and Leadership STM publisher Elsevier will collaborate with CQL, The Council on Quality and Leadership, an international provider of training, accreditation, consultation and certification services for human service organizations. The collaboration will result in the creation of a comprehensive online resource for the educational needs of… Read More »
Experts criticise a leading journal’s backtrack regarding policies on conflict of interest A group of former senior editors, writing in The BMJ, have criticised a ‘seriously flawed and inflammatory attack’ by The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on what that journal believes have become overly stringent policies on conflicts of interest. The NEJM was… Read More »
Elsevier and People’s Medical Publishing House launch English edition of Healthy China 2020: Strategic Research Report STM publisher Elsevier and People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH) has launched the English edition of Healthy China 2020: Strategic Research Report, an authoritative documentation of China’s healthcare reforms by the country’s former Minister of Health, Chen Zhu, who served… Read More »
SAGE acquires Pion Limited, strengthens geography and psychology portfolio Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of Pion Limited, independent publisher of high quality academic journals founded by Adam Gelbtuch and John Ashby in 1959. The sale was announced jointly by Chairman of Pion, David Cohen and Stephen Barr, President SAGE International. More Search for… Read More »
Open Access books slowly on the rise, says new PCG study Publishers and libraries are increasingly experimenting with Open Access (OA) books, according to a new survey by industry advisors, Publishers Communication Group (PCG). Books published under the so-called ‘author-pays,’ Gold Open Access model with no paywall for readers are expected to slowly grow in… Read More »
FBF acquires minority stake in IPR License Ltd The Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14-18, 2015) has announced a significant investment in IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform. The deal will see FBF take a minority shareholding in IPR License Ltd. The two companies will align to embark on a strategic sales, marketing… Read More »
The Following Lectures Were Published in April: Aspects of Differential Geometry II Peter Gilkey, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR JeongHyeong Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea Ramón Vázquez-Lorenzo, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics Dictionary Learning in Visual Computing Qiang Zhang, Samsung Baoxin Li, Arizona State University… Read More »