New export figures show global reach of UK publishing industry New figures released by The Publishers Association show the international demand of UK published material and how educational publishing remains the powerhouse of the UK publishing industry’s export business. Total export revenues were £1.42 billion in 2015 but a combination of education, academic and ELT… Read More »
ProQuest SIPX partners with OpenStax and OpenSUNY to boost access to Open Educational Resources ProQuest has announced that as part of its continuing commitment to support Open Educational Resources (OER), it is making OER content more discoverable and visible to instructors through SIPX and Summon. OpenSUNY OER textbooks are now indexed and available in Summon,… Read More »
Elsevier and the Association of Academic Health Centers partner to launch first program of the AAHC Thought Leadership Institute STM publisher Elsevier and the globally-recognized Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) have announced the launch of the first program offering of the AAHC Thought Leadership Institute. The first Institute program, to be launched in April… Read More »
Elsevier and zyBooks launch web-based interactive version of Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition STM publisher Elsevier and zyBooks, an online interactive textbook provider, has announced the launch of a web-based interactive version of the market-leading textbook Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition (David A. Patterson & John L. Hennessy, 2013). Considered the global industry… Read More »
CAS offers latest patent workflow solution, PatentPak, in both SciFinder and STN CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is offering its latest patent workflow solution, PatentPak, in both SciFinder® and STN®. Third-party research indicates the most common challenges faced when evaluating global patents includes the extensive length and complexity of these documents, as… Read More »
Elsevier adds more than 14,000 geologic maps from leading SEG journals to its Geofacets platform STM publisher Elsevier has announced that thousands of maps sourced from Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) journals are now available in Geofacets, its online geoscience solution. With the addition of more than 14,000 SEG maps that are easily discoverable, Geofacets… Read More »
Thieme realigns leadership structure As of April 1, 2016, Dr. H.C. Albrecht Hauff, publisher and managing partner of the Thieme Publishing Group, and Thieme’s managing director Dr. Wolfgang Knüppe will appoint four executives to the newly formed extended management board. With the new management line-up, the leading provider of media and information services for the… Read More »
Elsevier launches Rhizosphere, a multidisciplinary journal on the interactions between plant roots, soil organisms, nutrients, and water STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Rhizosphere, a multidisciplinary journal devoted to publishing research on the interactions between plant roots, soil organisms, nutrients, and water. This field of research has developed rapidly in the past years,… Read More »
Elsevier launches new journal – Forensic Chemistry STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Forensic Chemistry, a new international chemistry journal serving the needs of the forensic science community. The scope of the journal is to include forensic-related molecular and atomic spectrochemical technique, electrochemical techniques, sensors, surface characterization techniques, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance,… Read More »
Major research library organisations meet to discuss international collaboration The first joint meeting of five of the world’s most prominent academic and research library organisations took place at the British Library in London on March 8, 2016, ahead of the Research Libraries UK Conference. The meeting gathered together the elected leaders and executive directors of… Read More »