Open Access option now available in more than 80 percent of Wiley journals - July 3, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that its open access option for individual journal articles, OnlineOpen, will be available to authors in 81 percent of the journals it publishes. OnlineOpen gives authors the option to publish an open access paper in their journal… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe to showcase zbMATH database and EuDML project at Mathematics event - July 3, 2012
Germany’s FIZ Karlsruhe, along with Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, will be present in various respects at the 6th European Congress on Mathematics, to be held in Kraków from July 2-7. The event takes place every four years at different locations and is projected as the… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins reports significant gains in 2011 impact factor rankings - July 3, 2012
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced exceptional gains across 193 journals in its portfolio with the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters). Overall, 57 percent of LWW journals… Read More
OA survey findings on the evolving role of the librarian towards OA business model in scholarly publishing - July 3, 2012
Open Access publisher InTech, Croatia, has published the results of a survey appraising attitudes and awareness of the library community towards the Open Access (OA) business model in scholarly publishing. 211 librarians participated in the survey with 156 completing all questions. The majority of respondents were… Read More
RSC Publishing reports continued growth in impact factor journals - July 3, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio once again improved its Impact Factors following publication of the 2011 results. Last year the RSC published four times as many articles as it did in 2006 meaning a rise in quantity has gone hand… Read More
Cambridge University Press waives author charges for new OA mathematics journals - July 3, 2012
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), UK, has announced the launch of two new open access (OA) journals in mathematics - Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. Cambridge has established the Forum of Mathematics to offer OA journals to… Read More
