Overleaf and IEEE collaborate to integrate advanced online editing tools into IEEE Collabratec - October 2, 2015
Overleaf, an academic authorship tool, has announced that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has integrated the Overleaf online LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing tool into IEEE Collabratec™, the new IEEE professional networking and collaboration platform. IEEE, a global organisation… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Publons partner to give credit to peer reviewers - October 2, 2015
Publons, the world’s leading peer review recognition platform, and Cambridge University Press have entered into a partnership to give credit to peer reviewers for four Cambridge journals. Peer reviewers at participating Cambridge journals now have the option to automatically receive recognition for their peer review contributions… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing acquires three journals from the Agricultural Institute of Canada - October 2, 2015
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), an independent, not-for-profit scholarly publisher, and the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), a not-for-profit institute dedicated to broadening society’s knowledge and use of science and agriculture, have reached an agreement for CSP to acquire three journals: the Canadian Journal of Animal Science… Read More
The Optical Society launches solution to enable public access of US federally funded research articles - October 2, 2015
The Optical Society (OSA) has implemented a technology solution that effectively supports US federal agency public access requirements and helps authors comply with governmental mandates to make their federally funded articles publicly available after a 12-month embargo. By partnering with CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research… Read More
Elsevier announces publication of five new books on food and health including comprehensive encyclopedia - October 1, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the globally oriented new title, Encyclopedia of Food and Health. The five-volume encyclopaedia provides readers with comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics, from food production and processing to health effects. Elsevier also announced the publication of… Read More
Springer sponsors Trans-Tasman 3MT® competition for young researchers - October 1, 2015
STM publisher Springer, part of the newly formed publishing group Springer Nature, is sponsoring the Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. This high-profile event challenges doctoral students to condense and explain years of research to a non-specialist audience in a matter of minutes. Doctoral candidates from… Read More
