Holiday Notice - July 3, 2013
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 4, 2013, on account of Independence Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Friday, July 5, 2013. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 3rd issue. Read More
Thomson Reuters previews ScholarOne Web Services - July 2, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the preview of ScholarOne Web Services, an innovative addition to industry-leading publishing solution ScholarOne. ScholarOne Web Services is a holistic approach to integration that will enable publishers to uncover connections between shared research and its… Read More
177 universities in Turkey gain access to Scopus and ScienceDirect for next 3 years - July 2, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM) to provide 177 academic and research institutions in Turkey with access to Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. In addition, access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text… Read More
Wiley announces increase in Impact Factors - July 2, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a continued increase in the proportion of its journal titles indexed in the Thomson Reuters 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), with 1,192 (about 77 percent) titles now indexed, up from 1,156 in the 2011 JCR. Wiley titles… Read More
Karger Publishers expands Open Access programme with several initiatives - July 2, 2013
Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers, Switzerland, has announced the expansion of its Open Access programme with several initiatives to benefit researchers, readers, authors, funding organisations and other partners. With market demand increasing for Open Access in scientific and medical publishing, the Switzerland- based, international biomedical publisher… Read More
British Academy publishes series of 8 newly commissioned articles debating future of open access - July 2, 2013
The British Academy has published a series of 8 newly commissioned articles reflecting on the challenges and opportunities for humanities and social sciences open access publishing practices. Debating Open Access - edited by British Academy Vice-Presidents Professor Nigel Vincent and Professor Chris Wickham - demonstrates… Read More
