Anthony Cond named new Associate Editor for Learned Publishing - July 17, 2017
Learned Publishing, a scholarly publishing journal of the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), has announced the appointment of Liverpool University Press' Managing Director, Anthony Cond, as Associate Editor. Anthony is the founder of the University Press Redux conference, and was a guest… Read More
SAE International set to launch new transportation cybersecurity journal - July 17, 2017
SAE International has announced the fall 2017 launch of a preview issue of its new, one-of-a-kind collection of scientific articles relating to transportation cybersecurity and privacy. Transportation Cybersecurity and Privacy: An SAE International Journal, SAE's new quarterly journal, will include original articles focusing on the… Read More
Biodiversity data journal Check List joins Pensoft’s open access portfolio - July 17, 2017
Scholarly publisher Pensoft has announced journal Check List as the latest biodiversity-themed title to join its peer-reviewed and open access family. Its first issue in collaboration with Pensoft is now published on the journal's new website. Check List is an online open access journal launched… Read More
ACCUCOMS and Pluto Journals to kick off ALPSP Collections - July 17, 2017
ACCUCOMS, an independent provider of services to academic and professional publishers, has announced that Pluto Journals is the first publisher to join the ALPSP Collections. The announcement comes just a few weeks after ACCUCOMS and ALPSP announced the launch of the ALPSP Collections within Aggregagent™. Pluto… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 17, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Study Reports Open Peer Review Attracts Fewer Reviews, Quality Suffers); Todd Reitzel (The Trance of Dysfunction - Why Trolls Have Come to Dominate Discourse); Peter Dahler-Larsen (The new configuration of metrics, rules, and guidelines creates a disturbing ambiguity… Read More
Wiley and International AIDS Society announce new publishing partnership - July 14, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with the International AIDS Society (IAS) to publish their fully open access journal - Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). JIAS is well-established with an Impact Factor of 6.296, and all articles in the… Read More