Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 10, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Grace Baynes (Open access to high energy physics assured to 2019 by SCOAP3); Chris Carroll (The number behind the number: suggesting a truer measure of academic impact); Kent Anderson (Love That Dirty Water - Are We Headed Toward a “Clean… Read More
Open access represents one third of all research articles published, says Simba report - October 7, 2016
The number of open access (OA) research articles published annually is growing at double the rate of the complete spectrum of research articles. This is according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information. The report, Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020,… Read More
Elsevier updates major reference work, ‘Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences’ - October 7, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the second edition of its major reference work, Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences, edited by Brian Thomas, Denis Murphy and Brian Murray. The updated volume presents complete, authoritative information on more than 25 separate areas of plant science,… Read More
Wolters Kluwer and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. launch new OA journal – JBJS Open Access - October 7, 2016
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, in partnership with the Editorial Board and Board of Trustees of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., has announced the launch of the new open access journal, JBJS… Read More
Winner of 2016 EBSCO Charleston Conference Scholarship announced - October 7, 2016
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that Heidi Tebbe, the Collections & Research Librarian for Engineering and Data Science, from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., is the winner of the 2016 EBSCO Charleston Conference Scholarship. The scholarship will pay for Tebbe to attend the… Read More
Overleaf partners with The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - October 7, 2016
Overleaf, an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, has announced a new partnership with The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Through this partnership, authors submitting to ASBMB’s Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) will now have access to a custom JBC… Read More
