American Chemical Society announces new open access journal serving global and multidisciplinary chemistry, ACS Omega The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will expand its open access program in 2016 with the announcement of ACS Omega, a new open access, multidisciplinary chemistry journal publishing peer-reviewed research of broad impact from around the world.… Read More »
STM responds to the Max Planck Digital Library White Paper on the Open Access Transition The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the Max Planck DL (MPDL) paper on the transition to OA. STM welcomes this contribution to the open access debate and shares the belief that the most sustainable… Read More »
Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere in Italy The Health division of Wolters Kluwer has announced the launch of UpToDate ® Anywhere in Italy. UpToDate Anywhere enables hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with mobile and EHR-based access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource. UpToDate Anywhere expands the availability of this… Read More »
Nature Publishing Group and ReadCube reveal preliminary results of scientific article sharing trial Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, part of Springer Nature, has announced the results of its ground-breaking 12-month content sharing initiative to support collaborative research. The trial has concluded with positive results and the initiative to offer on-platform sharing of the full text… Read More »
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Russia becomes first Russian university to benefit from access to Mendeley Institutional Edition STM publisher Elsevier has announced its collaboration with National Research Nuclear University MEPhI by providing its researchers, faculty members and management with access to Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE). MEPhI is one of Russia’s leading institutions for… Read More »
Springer Nature and the Egyptian Government in deal to expand access to scientific content, launches Arabic edition of Scientific American Egypt’s Specialized Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research and Springer Nature have announced the launch of a 5 year national access agreement for Springer Nature content and services and the full sponsorship of an… Read More »
Springer Nature and the Confederation of Indian Industry partner to release the first ever nature index report on science in India at the CII global higher education summit The Nature Index analytics report Indian Science Ascending is the first of a new style of reports that further probe data from the Nature Index to answer… Read More »
Altmetric adds ORCID search functionality Altmetric has released a new functionality enabling users to search the entire Altmetric database, which contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs, by ORCID iD – making it easy for researchers, publishers, librarians and other users to uncover the online mentions and shares of scholarly content associated with… Read More »
Chinese research must continue to transform and reform to achieve the country’s goal of driving innovation-led development, says new NPG White Paper Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, has released Turning Point: Chinese Science in Transition, a White Paper which takes the pulse of China’s scientific research at a critical time in its… Read More »
SAGE partners with the Association for Patient Experience to publish the Journal of Patient Experience Academic publisher SAGE has begun publishing the Journal of Patient Experience (JPE) in partnership with the Association for Patient Experience. Disseminating practical findings and innovations to advance the patient experience, the ‘gold’ open access journal is a resource for industry… Read More »