Scope leverages Synaptica® to deliver a specialized thesaurus on nanotechnology for a global STM publisher - September 25, 2017
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that it has successfully completed an ANSI/NISO standards compliant nanotechnology Knowledge Model (KM) for a global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing company. Additionally, the hierarchies in the… Read More
Elsevier provides free online access to health and disaster journals in response to recent hurricanes and Mexico earthquakes - September 25, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, is providing free access online to health and disaster-related journals through the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in partnership with the U.S. National Library… Read More
Scientific & technical publishing market flat in 2016, says new Simba report - September 25, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report titled 'Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2017-2021.' The report notes that once a fast growing, predictable and inflation-proof market, scientific and technical publishing is now mostly flat and increasingly subject to… Read More
New open-access journal Metabarcoding & Metagenomics joins the lines of publisher Pensoft - September 25, 2017
A new innovative open-access academic journal Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG) has been launched to welcome novel papers from both basic and applied aspects. Focusing on genetic approaches to study biodiversity across all ecosystems, MBMG covers a considerably large scope of research including environmental, microbial and applied metabarcoding and metagenomics… Read More
Ingenta and British Library collaborate to digitise and distribute archival content - September 25, 2017
The British Library and Ingenta, a software provider to the publishing industry, have announced the signature of an agreement to collaborate on the digitisation and distribution of archival content for academic institutions. Every institutional library has its own archive of rare… Read More
Ecological Society of America names Richard Pouyat as President for 2017-2018 term - September 25, 2017
Ecological Society of America (ESA) has recently named Rich Pouyat, National Program Leader for Air and Soil Quality Research, United States Forest Service, as its President during the Society's annual meeting. Elected by the members of ESA for a one-year term, Pouyat presides over the… Read More