EBSCO Information Services acquires Linguistics Abstracts Online from Wiley - December 12, 2018
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the acquisition of Linguistics Abstracts Online from global publishing company, Wiley, thereby expanding its linguistics resources. Linguistics Abstracts Online is a bibliographic database providing high-quality, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts from leading linguistics and language study journals.… Read More
Springer Nature and Publons partner to bring greater efficiency and recognition to peer review - December 12, 2018
Research publisher Springer Nature and Publons, part of Clarivate Analytics, have announced a partnership to improve the peer review process and enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution. The burden on the peer review community is increasing as the volume… Read More
SourceData and BioStudies to implement new publication workflow - December 11, 2018
SourceData in collaboration with EMBL-EBI's BioStudies now offers an integrated workflow to make published data openly accessible and easy to find. EMBO's SourceData is an open platform that makes the data in research papers directly searchable. SourceData describes the contents of figures from scientific articles in… Read More
Scholastica announces archiving and indexing automations for OA journals - December 11, 2018
Scholastica, a vanguard academic journal software and service provider with tools for peer review and open access publishing, has announced new archiving and indexing automations. Scholastica now offers automated article and metadata deposits for the Portico digital preservation archive and for the Directory of Open Access… Read More
CLOCKSS to preserve University of Michigan Press ebook collection on Fulcrum - December 11, 2018
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that the University of Michigan Press and CLOCKSS have signed an agreement for the preservation of the e-books in University of Michigan Press's forthcoming UMP Ebook Collection which will be hosted on the innovative Fulcrum publishing platform. Initially this will… Read More
Emerald Open Research now open for submissions - December 11, 2018
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced that its new open access platform, Emerald Open Research, is now open for submissions. Created in partnership with F1000, the platform, which is new and pioneering for the social sciences community, offers authors immediate publication followed by transparent open… Read More
