STRIATUS/JBJS and Aries Systems announce development partnership to facilitate generation of PRE-score – a new metric to evaluate peer review quality - April 29, 2014
Peer review practices vary widely. Consequently readers and research funders lack a convenient and standardised way to assess the quality of peer review undertaken by scholarly journals. In response to this need, STRIATUS/JBJS, publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and its family of journals and educational offerings,… Read More
American Lawyer Media engages Scope for mining high quality market data - April 29, 2014
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of business process outsourcing services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced an ongoing engagement with American Lawyer Media (ALM), the leading provider of specialized news and business information to the legal and commercial real estate industries. As… Read More
John Bond named Chief Content Officer, SLACK Health Care Books and Journals - April 29, 2014
STM publishing company SLACK Incorporated, US, has announced that John Bond, has been named to the newly created position of Chief Content Officer, SLACK Health Care Books and Journals. John has over 25 years of experience at SLACK Inc. and has been successful in many… Read More
Twelve new ebook and journal publishers join Publishing Technology’s ingentaconnect service - April 29, 2014
Content solutions provider Publishing Technology has announced that twelve new ebook and journal publishers have signed to its flagship ingentaconnect portal, known as the home of scholarly research. Currently aggregating 11,764 publications and 5,700,905 articles from 255 publishers such as Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, Bentham Science,… Read More
OCLC releases WorldCat Works as linked data - April 29, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has made 197 million bibliographic work descriptions - WorldCat Works - available as linked data, a format native to the Web that will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services.… Read More
2014 Emerald Literati Network Award winners announced - April 29, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the winners of its prestigious Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2014. Now in their 21st year, and one of the largest independent academic award programs worldwide, the awards recognise high levels of research excellence across the breadth of Emerald's… Read More
