Elsevier launches My Knovel ToGo tablet app for Android and iOS STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of the My Knovel ToGo tablet application for Android and iOS. My Knovel ToGo is a mobile reader that provides both on- and offline access to Knovel content that users select from their subscription entitlements. This supports… Read More »
Elsevier’s PharmaPendium boosts UCL’s research in drug repurposing and personalised medicine STM publisher Elsevier has announced that UCL has subscribed to PharmaPendium, part of Elsevier’s R&D Solutions for Pharma and Life Sciences. PharmaPendium is a decision support solution designed to help improve drug development decisions by enabling access to the most comprehensive resource of fully… Read More »
ALPSP conference to discuss how to use text mining to extract sentiment, insights and opinions from Twitter The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has announced that Guy Singh of Linguamatics will be discussing how text mining can be applied to Twitter, a medium which uses a combination of both standard language, colloquialisms, slang… Read More »
PressReader to be exclusive news partner at the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced a unique partnership with PressReader, the Canada-based digital media platform. As the exclusive News Partner of the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14 – 18, 2015), PressReader will provide unlimited digital access to more than 4,000 newspapers and magazines… Read More »
Springer retracts 64 articles from 10 Springer subscription journals STM publisher Springer has confirmed that 64 articles are being retracted from 10 Springer subscription journals, after editorial checks spotted fake email addresses, and subsequent internal investigations uncovered fabricated peer review reports. After a thorough investigation it was discovered that the peer review process on these… Read More »
Frankfurt Book Fair appoints Amy Webster as new Associate Partner Rights and Licences The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced the appointment of Amy Webster as the new Associate Partner Rights and Licences. Amy joins from the Edinburgh TV Festival, where she was Head of New Business. She was previously at the London Book Fair, where… Read More »
Registration for ChemSearch Challenge Opens at American Chemical Society meeting 2015 STM publisher Elsevier has announced that registration is now open for participation in the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge, a series of online quizzes that measure how quickly chemists can find the information they need to correctly answer research questions. Chemists can use their preferred chemistry… Read More »
Outsell, Inc. publishes new CEO Topics Report: Evaluating Automated Content Tools Outsell, Inc., the research and advisory firm focused on media, information, and technology, has announced the publication of a new CEO Topics Report: Evaluating Automated Content Tools. The report shows how such technologies have made rapid advances and are now extending beyond content businesses… Read More »
Elsevier announces nine new Medicinal Chemistry Books at American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Boston STM publisher Elsevier has announced nine new medicinal chemistry books, including the latest edition of The Practice of Medicinal Chemistry, considered ‘The Bible’ by many medicinal chemists for nearly twenty years, which will be available in September. This… Read More »
Perceptions of open access publishing are changing for the better, reveals NPG and Palgrave Macmillan survey A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications. In 2014, 40 percent of scientists… Read More »