BMC series accepting case reports again - June 23, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that medical journals in the BMC series have started considering case reports again. The move follows the recent departure of the Journal of Medical Case Reports from BioMed Central's portfolio. BMC Gastroenterology has published the first case report… Read More
Inderscience Publishers announces inaugural issues of six new titles - June 23, 2009
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of six new titles. The new titles are: International Journal of Advanced Operations Management; International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling; International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise; International Journal of Environmental Engineering; International Journal… Read More
AAUP announces cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral - June 23, 2009
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral, a self-service e-content delivery platform from Impelsys, to support its 130 members in pursuing electronic publishing. The partnership provides AAUP members with a discount for using iPublishCentral's e-publishing platform and services through… Read More
RIN report examines UK’s share of world research outputs - June 22, 2009
The Research Information Network (RIN) has announced a new report that highlights key issues both for those who produce bibliometric analyses of research performance, and for those who commission and make use of such work. Bibliometrics is observed to be playing an increasing role in assessing… Read More
NPG permits data- and text-mining on self-archived manuscripts - June 22, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it will explicitly permit academic reuse of archived author manuscripts. The announcement was made by David Hoole, Head of Content Licensing, at the OAI6 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Researchers can now data-mine and text-mine author manuscripts… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils EndNote X3 for Windows with additional functionalities - June 22, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has released an upgrade to EndNote for Windows, a bibliographic management software for researchers, librarians and students. EndNote X3, including EndNote Web, delivers a collaborative solution that seeks to make users more productive. It expands ways to… Read More
