Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 27, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Hyungseok (David) Yoon and Mustapha Belkhouja (Multidisciplinary and cosmopolitan: how openness influences the academic impact of a scholar’s research); Amy Rees and Cat Williams (Patents: A new view of impact); Jacqueline Galica and Nancy Butcher (Helping researchers publish their work,… Read More
Wiley and The Royal Entomological Society renew publishing partnership - August 24, 2018
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global research and education company, and The Royal Entomological Society have announced the renewal of their publishing agreement and continued commitment to their partnership. Having partnered for many years, this renewed agreement extends for a further term and builds upon… Read More
EBSCO’s GOBI Library Solutions and TIND partner to improve acquisitions workflows - August 24, 2018
A new partnership between GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO (GOBI Library Solutions), a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), and TIND is aimed at streamlining GOBI acquisitions for TIND libraries. Libraries using the TIND ILS will now be able to use new functionality to streamline the… Read More
ARL to retire SPEC survey program in November - August 24, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that the SPEC survey program will end with the publication of SPEC Kit 361 in November. Going forward, ARL is developing new ways to design and implement pilot projects to test new measures, and record and distribute case… Read More
ChemComm to offer option for double-blind peer review - August 24, 2018
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its journal ChemComm will continue offering authors the option for double-blind peer review, after a trial over the past 12 months. ChemComm publishes 100 issues per year, and is known for being the fastest publisher of articles… Read More
IOP Publishing awards top cited Chinese authors - August 24, 2018
IOP Publishing has recognised top cited authors from China with a new award. The award is for corresponding authors from China, for work published across the whole IOP Publishing journal portfolio in the past three years (2015-2017). The winners are authors of the top… Read More