Dr. Jean-Luc Probst appointed Editor-in-Chief for Water - February 5, 2020
Open access journals publisher MDPI has announced that Dr. Jean-Luc PROBST has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for Water. He joined Water in 2018 and has made a great contribution to growth and development. Jean-Luc PROBST is a senior scientist in Environmental Biogeochemistry at the French National Center… Read More
Springer Nature expands research sharing initiative SharedIt to include conference proceedings - February 4, 2020
Springer Nature continues its commitment to opening up research and enabling the advancement of discovery with the rollout of the SharedIt initiative to proceedings books. Following a successful pilot in 2018, SharedIt will enable to exchange/share links on individual papers in the Lecture Notes in Computer… Read More
Rutgers partners with Google to provide online access to 190,000 books - February 4, 2020
Students, faculty and the global public will soon be able to discover nearly 190,000 titles from Rutgers University Libraries’ collections online, as a result of a new partnership with Google. The Google Books Library Project aims to ‘build a searchable catalogue of the world’s books online.’… Read More
Textbook publishers Cengage, McGraw-Hill extend merger agreement - February 4, 2020
Textbook publishers Cengage Learning Holdings and McGraw-Hill Education, who announced last year that they would merge, have extended their merger agreement to May 1 as some countries are still reviewing the deal. The proposed merger, which was announced in May 2019, had been set to expire… Read More
American Chemical Society appoints Bryan Brooks as new editor-in-chief for Environmental Science & Technology Letters - February 4, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Bryan W. Brooks of Baylor University has joined Environmental Science & Technology Letters as editor-in-chief. Brooks’ transdisciplinary research interests broadly include understanding and managing anthropogenic activities and stressors across levels of biological organisation.… Read More
The American Diabetes Association and Kudos partners to accelerate the positive impact of diabetes research in the world - February 4, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced a new three-year partnership with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) – a global leader in the provision of emerging diabetes knowledge. Through this partnership, Kudos will provide ADA’s… Read More