The Johns Hopkins University receives major grant to develop and deploy a platform to host OA monographs on Project MUSE - July 15, 2016
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a two-year $938,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop and deploy MUSE Open in Project MUSE, a unit of The Johns Hopkins University Press. This is one in… Read More
New open digital scholarship platform from UCL Press presents open access books online in three new formats - July 15, 2016
The new open digital scholarship platform from UCL Press presents its open access books online in three distinct and innovative formats - enhanced digital editions, monographs with scholarly functionalities, and BOOCs (Books as Open Online Content). Developed by Armadillo Systems (producers of the award-winning Turning… Read More
Investing in academic excellence does lead to research impact, says new HEFCE report - July 14, 2016
A report for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) by Digital Science reveals that the scholarly significance of research underpins its societal impact. The report titled 'Publication patterns in research underpinning impact in REF 2014' is the first report to… Read More
SAGE Publishing reports continued strong growth in 2016 release of Journal Citation Reports - July 14, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing reported continued strong performance and growth across its journals portfolio in the Journal Citation Reports (Source: 2015 Web of Science Data). With 548 journals now ranked in the JCR, SAGE continues to experience consistent growth within the reports, achieving a 42%… Read More
Springer Nature and Tsinghua University Press present the third Nano Research Award - July 14, 2016
Peidong Yang, the S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has received the third Tsinghua University Press-Springer Nano Research Award. The award… Read More
Optica celebrates second anniversary, unveils a new article type for breakthrough results - July 14, 2016
Optica, The Optical Society's open access, online journal dedicated to rapidly disseminating the highest impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics, is celebrating its second anniversary this month. As part of its continuing efforts to provide an… Read More
