Emerald Group Publishing announces key strategic and high profile appointments - October 4, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has made a number of key strategic and high profile appointments, as it continues to heavily invest in its academic Books programme. Dr. Philippa Grand, previously Editorial Director, Palgrave Social Sciences at Springer Nature, has been appointed as Editorial Director,… Read More
Elsevier to publish The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety - October 3, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier and Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (JCR), a non-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission, have announced that Elsevier will be the new publisher of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS), effective January 1, 2017. For the past 40 years, JQPS… Read More
ALPSP and The PA to host debate on Brexit and academic publishing at Frankfurt Book Fair - October 3, 2016
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and The PA will host a debate on the impact of Brexit on academic publishing at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair on October 20, 2016, 10:30 to 11:00 am, Publishing Perspectives Stage, Hall 6.0. UK Publishing… Read More
Open-access journal eLife to start charging fees for all accepted papers - October 3, 2016
The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features - free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers. Most open-access journals already charge for publishing, because they have few other ways to bring in cash.… Read More
ICSTI to organise third webinar in partnership with NISO - October 3, 2016
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) will organise its third webinar themed 'Enabling Innovations for Researcher Workflows and Scholarly Communication' in close partnership with NISO. This webinar is scheduled for October 26, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.… Read More
The BMJ launches new series to get latest trial evidence into practice - October 3, 2016
The BMJ is launching a new series called 'Rapid Recommendations' - a collaboration with an international group of researchers and doctors, working together with patients - to quickly and reliably transform research evidence into clinical practice recommendations. It is impossible for an individual doctor to… Read More
