Carina Kniep joins STEM team at De Gruyter - January 8, 2018
Dr. Carina Kniep has joined the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) team at De Gruyter as Editorial Director Physical Sciences. She brings not only 18 years of experience in STM publishing, but also specific expertise in developing and launching new products with scientists as well… Read More
ERT’s Karin Beckstrom recognised as a Top Industry Innovator - January 8, 2018
ERT, a global data and technology company that minimises uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, has announced that Karin Beckstrom, who heads up the company's Innovation Lab, has been named a Top 20 Innovator by CenterWatch. CenterWatch's list of Top 20 Innovators recognises the smart… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 8, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Workflow Lock-in: A Taxonomy); Jalees Rehman (Novelty in science - real necessity or distracting obsession?); and Nature Blog (Reward research that changes society). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing invites scholarly communication professionals to join its Industry Announcements and Events online discussion group - January 5, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is inviting scholarly communication professionals to join its Industry Announcements and Events online discussion group. The discussion group replaces the SSP-L list-serv and is part of SSP's new C3 community platform. Announcements of conferences, events, or other resources of broad… Read More
Universities in Germany win temporary access to Elsevier journals after refusing to pay fees - January 5, 2018
Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has reportedly granted uninterrupted access to its paywalled journals for researchers at around 200 German universities and research institutes that had refused to renew their individual subscriptions at the end of 2017. The institutions had formed a… Read More
ACS Publications records 100 million article downloads by researchers worldwide in 2017 - January 5, 2018
The American Chemical Society's (ACS') Publications Division achieved a major milestone in 2017 surpassing 100 million full-text journal article downloads during the calendar year. This marks a new global usage record for the 51 peer-reviewed ACS journals, which publish research in chemistry and allied fields. Along… Read More
