Emerald provides access to key research, supports Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 - November 18, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced that to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, it is providing free online access to a collection of articles, case studies and book chapters, which have been selected to support young and aspiring entrepreneurs to 'Take a Step Forward'– the theme… Read More
Primo Central Index now features metadata from e-books and e-journals published by De Gruyter - November 18, 2013
The Primo Central Index, a discovery and delivery service offered by the library software provider Ex Libris, now features metadata from all of the e-books and e-journals published by De Gruyter as well as its imprints and publishing partners. The Primo Central… Read More
Troy Shinbrot named Editor, Physical Review Applied - November 18, 2013
The American Physical Society (APS) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have jointly announced that Troy Shinbrot, a professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Rutgers, has been appointed Editor of Physical Review Applied, the latest APS journal. Launching in 2014, Physical Review… Read More
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory unveils freely accessible, citable preprint server for biology – bioRxiv - November 18, 2013
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced the launch of a new stage in the evolution of life science communication - a new, free service, called bioRxiv. It is a preprint server that enables research scientists to share the results of their work before peer review… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 18, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Jenny Mudarri (Why Data Matters for Digital Publishers); Helen Margetts (Five recommendations for maximising the relevance of social science research for policy-making in the big data era); Kent Anderson (The Silent Dog - Why Didn’t the PubMed Central National Advisory… Read More
Elsevier announces new OA journal, BBA Clinical - November 15, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of BBA Clinical, the first full open access journal within the Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) journal series. BBA Clinical will focus on translating molecular insights into clinical research. BBA Clinical is a biomedical journal dedicated to publishing research… Read More
