University College London and Elsevier launch UCL Big Data Institute - December 19, 2013
University College London (UCL) and STM publisher Elsevier will establish the UCL Big Data Institute as part of a new collaboration to explore innovative ways to better serve needs of researchers through the exploration of new technologies and analytics as applied to… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics announce 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation journal - December 19, 2013
Publisher Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) has announced the 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation, an online open access journal. The journal, a sister title to the Journal of Human Genetics, will go live on nature.com in 2014, and will… Read More
Springer’s open access titles to move to new CC-BY 4.0 license - December 19, 2013
Articles submitted to BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen journals from February 03, 2014 onwards will be subject to the new CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution license. This also applies to open access articles published in the majority of Springer's subscription-based journals using the Open Choice… Read More
New report analyses usage patterns of academic journal articles - December 19, 2013
A new report funded by the Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) analyses the usage pattern of articles published in over 2800 academic and professional journals. It identifies the 'half-life' of journals - the amount of time it takes… Read More
Diane Grob Schmidt elected 2015 president of the American Chemical Society - December 19, 2013
Dr. Diane Grob Schmidt, a section head in Research and Development at Procter & Gamble will become president of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in January 2015 after serving as president-elect in 2014. As president, she will lead the way to initiate and support actions… Read More
New research project allows faster and easier access to innovation trends in future technologies through trend mining in patent information - December 19, 2013
A new research project at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure allows a faster and easier access to innovation trends in future technologies through trend mining in patent information. FIZ Karlsruhe has developed efficient analysis tools for trend research with patent information which draw… Read More
