SAGE journals post impressive impact factors - July 5, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that 31 Journals have been newly ranked in the latest Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR). SAGE's overall market share of the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) increased to 11 percent (340 titles). SAGE has consistently increased its JCR coverage year… Read More
Campus research gateway and expert finder BibApp released - July 5, 2010
The BibApp development team has announced the 1.0 release of BibApp, a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches researchers on the campus or research centre with their publication data, and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualisations of areas of research, and find… Read More
New thematic series highlights improvements in mortality statistics - July 5, 2010
Population Health Metrics, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently published a new thematic series entitled 'Measuring mortality in Thailand.' The series Editor, Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, is an Associate Editor for Population Health Metrics. The series describes methods and results from what could be… Read More
CERN bags 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - July 5, 2010
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, has announced CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as the winner of the 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The Award was presented at the Aarhus State and… Read More
EE Times Group names Ron Wilson as Director of Content/Media - July 5, 2010
EE Times Group, a United Business Media company, has announced that electronics industry expert, Ron Wilson, will rejoin the company as Director of Content/Media. Wilson replaces Richard Nass who has left EE Times Group to work in the medical group at Canon Communications. In his new… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 5, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Scott Lindsay (Ebooks: An Overlooked Goldmine?); Paul Biba (The Future of Textbook Publishing in the Digital Age — New Publisher Workflows); Roy Tennant (Top Trends, Part 1); and Kathryn Greenhill (The future of libraries and ebooks). Blogspeak includes blog posts… Read More
