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 »
Elsevier unveils two new journals – Materials Today Chemistry and Materials Today Energy STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of two new journals – Materials Today Chemistry and Materials Today Energy. These journals are the latest addition to Elsevier’s Materials Today family – a growing collection of six branded titles, and an extended family… Read More »
PLOS appoints Dr. Joerg Heber as Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE Open access journal publisher PLOS has announced the appointment of Dr. Joerg Heber as Editor-in-Chief ofPLOS ONE. Heber will be responsible for setting the editorial course of the journal and continue its mission of improving scholarly communication. His appointment is effective November 21, 2016. More… Read More »
EMBO and Wiley launch the SmartFigures Lab Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and EMBO have announced the launch of the ‘SmartFigures Lab’, a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework… Read More »