MDPI announces 1000 articles milestone for OA journal Electronics - February 19, 2019
Open access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced that its open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications, Electronics, has published more than 1000 articles and reviews since its inception in 2012. Electronics is now covered in the Science Citation Index… Read More
Plan S – Physics societies warn of ‘irrecoverable damage’ - February 18, 2019
The European Physical Society (EPS) has warned that a major open-access initiative in Europe could cause ‘irrecoverable damage’ if it is implemented too quickly. In a statement, the EPS says that while it welcomes the proposal – known as Plan S —… Read More
Wiley extends partnership with the British Educational Research Association to advance educational research - February 18, 2019
John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the British Educational Research Association (BERA) have announced that they are renewing their current publishing partnership and extending it with the transition of the fourth BERA journal Curriculum Journal. This international peer-reviewed journal publishes original contributions to the study of… Read More
BMJ partners with Editage to offer BMJ Author Services - February 18, 2019
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has partnered with Editage to offer language editing and translation services to medical researchers who seek to publish in healthcare science journals. BMJ Author Services will enable medical researchers across the globe to clearly communicate their research, potentially in one of BMJ’s… Read More
eLife invests in open-source content production tool, Texture - February 18, 2019
eLife has announced its investment in the development of Texture, an open-source toolset for the editing and production of manuscripts, designed to be integrated into publishers’ editorial and content-delivery systems. Originally created by Substance Software GmbH (Substance) as a JavaScript library of tools for web-based… Read More
Gale and EveryLibrary partner to launch nationwide campaign to promote how libraries support entrepreneurship - February 18, 2019
Gale, a Cengage company, has partnered with EveryLibrary, a national non-profit organisation dedicated to non-partisan political action on behalf of libraries, to launch a nationwide campaign to help raise awareness of the services libraries offer to entrepreneurs and startups. The campaign will run throughout the… Read More