COUNTER4 successfully introduced at De Gruyter Online - March 13, 2014
Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced that Version 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources has been introduced as standard at De Gruyter Online. COUNTER4 is the current international standard for the creation and distribution of usage statistics for electronic resources such as eBooks,… Read More
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. launches Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective, Second Edition - March 13, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has reaffirmed its commitment to defending and promoting ethical publishing with the launch of its Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective. Second Edition. Wiley was the first major publisher to produce such guidelines in 2006, and the… Read More
Elsevier unveils new OA journal: Colloid and Interface Science Communications - March 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of open access journal - Colloid and Interface Science Communications (COLCOM). Colloid and Interface Science Communications provides an innovative channel for the rapid publication of short initial reports on new fundamental concepts, research findings and topical applications at… Read More
Elsevier to publish Energy Institute journal – Journal of the Energy Institute - March 10, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has entered into a publishing agreement with the Energy Institute (EI) to publish its official journal, Journal of the Energy Institute. Journal of the Energy Institute, a peer-reviewed quarterly publication first published in 1926, is essential reading for academics, researchers and practitioners across… Read More
Wiley unveils new OA journal – Nursing Open - March 10, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Nursing Open as part of the Wiley Open Access publishing program. The journal is one of the first open access journals to span the entire breadth of the nursing field. Nursing Open provides authors… Read More
Emerald and Kudos collaborate to boost research impact - March 7, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is collaborating with Kudos to pilot a service that helps increase the impact of published articles. The partnership aims to support Emerald's authors in exploiting digital communication channels to maximise the global influence of their research. Launching in April 2014,… Read More
