New Nature Index data shows surge in China’s publishing of high-quality research in the Earth and environmental sciences - July 2, 2018
New data from the Nature Index show a surge in China's publishing of high-quality research in the Earth and environmental sciences. The United States remains the leading nation in the field, but China's output is catching up, rising by 95% between 2012 and 2017 to take… Read More
Pistoia Alliance’s UDM team release first file format specification for chemical reaction information exchange - July 2, 2018
The Pistoia Alliance UDM project team - including members from BIOVIA, GSK, Novartis, and Roche - has announced the first release of the now-open Unified Data Model (UDM) file format specification which will facilitate the exchange of information about chemical reactions. The new update consists of… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing appoints Tom Ciavarella as Co-chair, Community Engagement Committee - July 2, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has appointed Tom Ciavarella, Manager of Publisher Relations at Clarivate Analytics, to the role of Co-chair to its Community Engagement Committee to support its goals of providing programming outside of the US. Founded in 1978,… Read More
American College of Prosthodontists appoints Radi Masri as new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Prosthodontics - July 2, 2018
American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) has appointed Radi Masri as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Prosthodontics (JoP), effective July 1. Masri is a clinician, lecturer, and a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and School of Medicine. Masri's… Read More
Credo releases The Credo FYE Guide and contest announcements - July 2, 2018
Credo has released the final publication of The Credo FYE Guide: Practices for Enhancing Instruction, an interactive e-guide designed to help academic librarians supporting the first year experience. Through trends overviews, case studies, activity guides, lesson plans, and more, the guide provides extensive resources for… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched books now discoverable within PaperHive search - July 2, 2018
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for the sustainable funding of Open Access (OA) models, is now implemented in PaperHive's database. Readers can now use PaperHive's powerful search engine to search across all Knowledge Unlatched titles or browse within specific disciplines. More than 900 titles and… Read More
