Mendeley database handles over 100 million calls per month - August 23, 2012
UK-based start-up Mendeley has announced that the number of queries to its database from external applications has surpassed 100 million per month. More than 240 applications received for research collaboration, measurement, visualisation, semantic markup and discovery - all of which have been developed in the past… Read More
SPIE launches new open access programme for journals - August 23, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new programme that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons… Read More
NISO brings out Journal Article Tag Suite Standard for journal publishers - August 23, 2012
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), US, has announced the publication of a new American National Standard, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012. JATS provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content by preserving the intellectual content of journals… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish official journal of Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing - August 23, 2012
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, will be collaborating with the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing (APSSLH) to launch the Speech, Language and Hearing journal in 2013. The journal is the official journal of APSSLH and is provided to each member… Read More
Dove Medical Press acquires Journal of Parkinsonism and Restless Legs Syndrome - August 23, 2012
Open access publisher Dove Medical Press, UK, has announced that it has acquired the Journal of Parkinsonism & Restless Legs Syndrome (JPRLS). The journal is written exclusively for the medical and scientific community wishing to read related research, policy, phenomenology, literature, history, and treatment. The journal… Read More
Platts introduces ash differential to thermal coal pricing - August 23, 2012
Energy and metals information provider Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has introduced a valuation mechanism that will bring greater clarity and specificity to thermal coal pricing based on ash content. Ash is the non-combustible residue left after coal is burnt. Platts… Read More
