CAS announces 2013 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry programme participants - July 17, 2013
Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the 2013 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry programme participants. Since 2010, the program has been dedicated to providing Ph.D. students – and for the first time this year, postdoctoral researchers… Read More
Elsevier announces 2012 Journal Impact Factor highlights - July 17, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2012. According to the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 53 percent of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2011 to 2012. Furthermore, 17 percent of… Read More
zbMATH launches redesigned user interface with more intuitive and visual user guidance - July 17, 2013
Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH), a leading online database for mathematics, has launched a redesigned user interface with more intuitive and visual user guidance. The main changes are the simplified search functionalities, in particular the ability to use any combination of criteria, continual refining of the search options,… Read More
EBSCO and EOS International partnership to enhance library discovery - July 17, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO and EOS International, a leader in cloud computing library automation software, have announced a new partnership to bring more choice to libraries looking for a discovery solution. A joint development schedule will enable more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)… Read More
Scientific American announces science fiction competition, Quantum Shorts - July 17, 2013
Science magazine Scientific American has announced the Quantum Shorts 2013 competition, in partnership with Tor Books, a science fiction and fantasy publisher, and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. The Quantum Shorts contest encourages readers to submit a short story that… Read More
SAGE reports strong performance in 2012 Journal Citation Reports - July 17, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE reported strong performance across its journals portfolio in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2013), with an increase of 30 indexed titles on prior year to 461 across both the Social Science (SSCI) and Science (SCI) Citation Indexes. Over the last… Read More
