John Wiley & Sons announces transition of three journals to Wiley Open Access publishing program Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the transition of three journals to the Wiley Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of Wiley’s open access titles to 47. From January 1, 2015, all published articles in… Read More »
Inaugural ‘2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report powered by Scopus data and SciVal analytics STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the inaugural and newly-released ‘2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report, based on Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC)’s evaluation, is anchored on its Scopus research database and powered by metrics from SciVal analytics – both part of… Read More »
PeerJ launches new OA journal – PeerJ Computer Science Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Computer Science, a cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. The journal will start accepting preprints on February 3rd and peer-review articles on February 12th, which is also PeerJ’s two-year anniversary… Read More »
ProQuest’s new integrated ebook platform to be called ProQuest Ebook Central ProQuest unveiled the name of its eagerly anticipated new ebook platform – ProQuest Ebook Central. Launching in mid-2015, ProQuest Ebook Central will integrate key elements from both ebrary and EBL – Ebook Library, along with all-new functionality, delivering a next-generation experience for researchers and… Read More »
Nature Publishing Group and The University of Queensland launch new OA journal – npj Science of Learning Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has partnered with The University of Queensland (UQ) to publish npj Science of Learning, a new open access research journal that will explore the neurobiology of learning in experimental and educational environments. UQ… Read More »
Springer assumes control of Autoimmunity Highlights journal, shifts journal to open access STM publisher Springer has assumed control of the journal Autoimmunity Highlights, which was previously owned by A. Menarini Diagnostics, an Italian company. In doing so Springer has also elected to make the journal an open access (OA) publication, which will allow for its… Read More »
ProQuest, University of Michigan Library and Bodleian Libraries provide 25,000 early modern books as open access text The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the acclaimed ProQuest resource Early English Books Online (EEBO) are now openly available on the websites of the University of Michigan Library and the Bodleian Libraries at the University… Read More »
Capturing growth and share in emerging markets will continue to be a key strategy for medical publishers, says new Simba report Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a new report ‘Global Medical Publishing 2015-2019,’ according to which, clinical-based publishing is projected to see some of its most rapid growth in Turkey, Chile,… Read More »
Elsevier publishes new edition of three-volume Handbook of Crystal Growth STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the new edition of the three-volume Handbook of Crystal Growth edited by Dr. Tatau Nishinaga, Dr. Peter Rudolph and Dr. Tom Kuech. These combined works of reference present the underlying scientific foundation of the multi-disciplinary field of… Read More »
SAGE white paper presents collaborative opportunities for improving discoverability in 2015 Academic publisher SAGE has released a new whitepaper ‘Improving the Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Academic Library Priorities and Perspectives,’ which discusses new ways for members of the scholarly communications supply chain to come together to solve discoverability issues. Those attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting… Read More »