New web service, SHERPA REF, to clarify journal compliance with REF - March 24, 2016
Jisc, in collaboration with the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), have announced the availability of SHERPA REF. SHERPA REF beta is a web service – funded and endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – that allows authors and institutions… Read More
Genes & Nutrition moves to BioMed Central - March 24, 2016
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that the Genes & Nutrition journal will publish exclusively open access articles and move to BioMed Central. The journal, which is published with The Nutrigenomics Organization (NuGO), examines the relationship between genetics and nutrition, with the ultimate goal… Read More
IEEE introduces four eLearning courses and a new Massive Open Online Course - March 24, 2016
IEEE has announced the availability of four new IEEE eLearning courses through the IEEE Standards University, and a new IEEE MOOC entitled Innovation and Competition: Succeeding through Global Standards. The IEEE Foundation Fund and the IEEE Life Members Fund provided funding for the MOOC, which… Read More
Dr. Hans-Joachim Priebe named Executive Editor of A&A Case Reports - March 24, 2016
The International Anesthesia Research Society has announced that Dr. Hans-Joachim Priebe has accepted the position of Executive Editor of A&A Case Reports, a peer-reviewed online journal focused on sharing and discussion of informative clinical cases in anesthesiology, critical care and pain management. Dr. Priebe is… Read More
Holiday Notice - March 24, 2016
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on March 25, 2016 on account of Good Friday. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, March 28, 2016. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the March 24th issue. … Read More
Springer Nature to extend content sharing to Springer Nature-owned journal portfolio - March 23, 2016
Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has announced that it will extend its year-long nature.com content sharing trial to enable its research articles to be freely shared with all researchers and the wider public via its authors, subscribers and global media partners. … Read More
