OCLC acquires Italian library services distributor IFNET - July 7, 2016
A non-profit global library cooperative OCLC has announced the acquisition of IFNET through its subsidiary OCLC EMEA B.V. IFNET is the distributor of library automation software and services in Italy. IFNET, formerly IF, was founded in Italy in 1985 by a group of librarians with… Read More
HighWire Press appoints John Corkery and Andy Gardner as Senior Sales Directors - July 7, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., the technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced the appointment of John Corkery and Andy Gardner in the roles of Senior Sales Directors for North America reporting in to Wendy Newsham, VP North American Sales. For… Read More
Elsevier’s latest PracticeUpdate Center of Excellence focuses on metastatic breast cancer - July 6, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has launched its newest PracticeUpdate Center of Excellence (COE) focused on metastatic breast cancer. The COE, an important new benefit for PracticeUpdate members, brings together medical experts in oncology to discuss and provide relevant treatment advice and disease information on metastatic breast… Read More
Oxford University Press announces continued growth in the latest Impact Factor results - July 6, 2016
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced continued growth in the 2016 release of the Journal Citation Reports (source: 2015 Web of Science Data). Driven by its mission to support excellence in research and education, OUP now has 233 titles receiving an Impact Factor, with… Read More
Wellcome set to launch open research publishing platform – Wellcome Open Research - July 6, 2016
Wellcome will launch an open research publishing platform this autumn to enable their grantees to rapidly publish all outputs from their research. Wellcome Open Research will use services developed by F1000Research to make research outputs available faster and in ways that… Read More
Special issue of FSG published journal Future Oncology explores the field of Oncofertility - July 6, 2016
Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Future Oncology, has released a special issue that examines the field of oncofertility, which aims to preserve fertility in cancer patients. As the field of cancer research has developed and improved, the numbers of patients surviving many years post-diagnosis… Read More
