Elsevier announces completion of Kyoto University’s study on research activities and competencies at universities across Japan - March 6, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the completion Kyoto University's study on research activities and competencies at universities across Japan. The study was based on analyses of data driven from Elsevier's multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, SciVerse Scopus. Measuring the effect of the Japanese government's… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces new publishing partnership with the Society of Actuaries - March 6, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with the Society of Actuaries to publish six publications in the field of actuarial science, beginning in 2012. The publications are designed to prepare for the Construction… Read More
Four LWW Nursing books win AJN Book of the Year award - March 6, 2012
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that four nursing textbooks published by the company have been awarded the AJN Book of the Year award by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). LWW publications were honored in the categories of… Read More
Gartner predicts greater employee use of social media sites for corporate IAM - March 6, 2012
Technology research firm Gartner, Inc., US, has announced that fewer than 30 percent of large organisations will block employee access to social media sites by 2014, compared with 50 percent in 2010. The number of organisations blocking access to all social media is dropping by around… Read More
InTech publications accepted for inclusion in Inspec and Scopus - March 6, 2012
STM publisher InTech, Croatia, has announced the inclusion of 620 books in the Inspec database and the International Journal of Engineering Business Management entering the Scopus database. In 2011 alone, the number of downloaded book chapters and articles outperformed the number of any year between… Read More
‘GigaScience’ calls for papers for special series on genomic standards - March 6, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that to tie in with this week's Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Shenzhen, its journal GigaScience is launching a call for submissions to a thematic series of discussion and research from the conference and wider community highlighting… Read More
