Frontiers and the University of Würzburg form OA publishing agreement - January 9, 2019
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (University of Würzburg) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University of Würzburg supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University of Würzburg has entered into an institutional… Read More
CAS and INPI collaborate to enhance patent application examination efficiency with new AI approach - January 8, 2019
The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) of Brazil and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society that specialises in scientific information solutions, have initiated a collaboration to speed the processing of patent applications at INPI by improving the efficiency of… Read More
Marty Kahn, Chairman of Code Ocean, selected to receive the NFAIS 2019 Miles Conrad Award - January 8, 2019
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Marty Kahn, Chairman of Code Ocean, has been selected to receive the NFAIS 2019 Miles Conrad Award. NFAIS' Miles Conrad Award, long considered the… Read More
Thieme Chemistry deposits about 700,000 distinct chemical structures to PubChem - January 8, 2019
Thieme Chemistry, a part of the Thieme Group, has provided approximately 700,000 distinct structures to PubChem, the open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition to the structural information, the upload includes more than 1,200,000 distinct links from chemicals to the Thieme… Read More
ProQuest and Ex Libris expand investment in Latin America - January 8, 2019
ProQuest and Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, are expanding their commitment to their Latin American customers and users, opening three new offices in the region and hiring additional local staff. Grupo Sistemas Logicos, a distributor that has represented Ex Libris in the region, will join the… Read More
Prof. Tianquan (Tim) Lian named Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Chemical Physics - January 8, 2019
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced the appointment of Tianquan (Tim) Lian, the William Henry Emerson Professor of Chemistry at Emory University, as the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP), a peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative and quantitative science… Read More