HighWire Press and Tizra announce strategic partnership - July 16, 2013
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced a strategic partnership with Tizra to extend ebook functionality and integration to the HighWire Open Platform. Combining an intuitive web control panel with uniquely integrated content remixing, ecommerce, SEO and mobile web capabilities, Tizra… Read More
ICIS Chemical Business magazine unveils annual ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors listing - July 16, 2013
ICIS Chemical Business magazine has unveiled its annual ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors listing ranked by 2012 sales. Topping the charts once again is Germany-based Brenntag, with $12.8 billion in sales, followed by US-based Univar with $10.3 billion in revenues. Germany-based Helm takes the third… Read More
Nature Communications’ and Scientific Reports’ submission and publication rates continue to grow rapidly - July 15, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are now the fastest growing journals published by NPG. Launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively, both journals reached the milestone of 2000 published papers in June 2013, and their submission and publication… Read More
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launches Global Patent Search Network - July 15, 2013
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched the Global Patent Search Network, a free service that will eventually provide translations of patents granted in multiple countries and languages. The agency hopes to make patent research easier and more comprehensive with this move. The Global… Read More
Open-access platform Libre set for October launch, academics invited to publish papers and solicit reviews - July 15, 2013
Three academics are set to launch a new open-access platform that they hope will allow researchers to wrest control of peer review from journals and remove academic publishers' justification for charging high prices for their titles. The Libre platform, slated for launch in October, will host open reviews of… Read More
Three new publishers participate in the CLOCKSS digital preservation archive - July 15, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of the Philosophy Documentation Center; Reveal Digital; and the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care. CLOCKSS will preserve their collections in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around… Read More
