US task force releases report on sustainable preservation of digital knowledge base - March 9, 2010
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has published a new report titled ‘Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information’. The report says that a key societal challenge of the Information Age is to ensure that valued… Read More
Springer and Max Planck Society announce agreement - March 9, 2010
STM publisher Springer, Germany, and The Max Planck Society have announced an agreement that allows scientists working at the 78 Max Planck Institutes and research facilities across Germany access to content on Springer’s electronic platform SpringerLink. The agreement covers access for 2010 and 2011. The pilot… Read More
Editor may have to quit as Elsevier looks to introduce peer-review for journal ‘Medical Hypotheses’ - March 9, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier has reportedly asked the editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Hypotheses to immediately step down or implement a series of changes in his editorial policy, including introducing a system of peer-review. Medical Hypotheses is currently the only Elsevier journal that does not have a… Read More
BioMed Central journal ranked highly by new ‘SNIP’ citation metric - March 9, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is its highest-ranking journal based on the SNIP metric, with a value of 1.31 (the median SNIP for the ~17,000 journals in Scopus is 0.52). This places the journal in the top… Read More
Thieme’ Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine bags first prize at the PROSE Awards - March 9, 2010
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that The Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine has won first prize in the Nursing and Allied Health category of the 2009 PROSE Award. The annual award presented by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recognises the best in… Read More
EE Times appoints Karen Field to oversee community-generated content initiatives - March 9, 2010
EE Times Group, part of United Business Media, has announced the appointment of Karen Field as Vice President, Community, beginning March 15, 2010. She will report to Paul Miller, CEO, EE Times Group and will be located in the company's Framingham, MA office. In this newly… Read More
