Transfer launches new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service - July 3, 2012
Transfer, the UKSG-sponsored initiative to create a Code of Practice to follow when journals are transferred between publishers, has announced the release of its Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS). ETAS is a rapid alerting service that will allow publishers involved in a journal transfer to… Read More
Knowledgespeak Exclusive - July 3, 2012
An interview with Ziyad Marar(Twitter: @ZiyadMarar), Global Publishing Director, SAGE Read More
Holiday Notice - July 3, 2012
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 4, 2012, on account of the ‘Independence Day’ holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, July 05, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 3rd… Read More
Study examines possible publication bias and conflict of interest in article reprints - July 2, 2012
Journal BMJ has published the results of a case-control study titled “High reprint orders in medical journals and pharmaceutical industry funding”. The study analysed the extent to which funding and study design were associated with high reprint orders, and the financial implications of the same. Reprints… Read More
Nature Communications joins Nature at the top of the multidisciplinary sciences category in 2011 JCR - July 2, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Nature Communications has joined Nature at the top of the multidisciplinary sciences category in the 2011 Journal Citation Report (JCR). The journal received its first impact factor of 7.396, when Thomson Reuters published the 2011 JCR.… Read More
Wiley appoints Rachel Burley as Vice President and Director, Open Access - July 2, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the creation of a new role to lead open access. Rachel Burley has been appointed to the position of Vice President and Director, Open Access. In this new role Rachel will lead all aspects of the… Read More
