Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics announce 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation journal - December 19, 2013
Publisher Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) has announced the 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation, an online open access journal. The journal, a sister title to the Journal of Human Genetics, will go live on nature.com in 2014, and will… Read More
Brill and Semantico launch new online platform for primary sources – BrillOnline Primary Sources - December 18, 2013
Academic publisher Brill and UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico have announced the launch of BrillOnline Primary Sources – Brill's new online platform for primary sources. The new platform consists of thematic collections of unique materials such as rare books and documents from around the world.… Read More
Elsevier to flip 7 subscription journals to Open Access in 2014 - December 18, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will flip seven established subscription journals to a gold open access model starting January 1, 2014. These titles include Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B as part of Elsevier's participation in the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open… Read More
Sciedu Press launches International Journal of Diagnostic Imaging - December 16, 2013
Sciedu Press, a Canada-based research publication agency in Canada, has announced the launch of the International Journal of Diagnostic Imaging. Sciedu Press handles the promotion and publication of all scientific research and education. The goal is to spread and increase awareness of scientific knowledge all… Read More
Digital Science donates SureChem data of more than 15 million chemical compounds and patents to EMBL-EBI - December 12, 2013
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Science & Education, is donating the SureChem collection of more than15 million chemical structures from world patents into the public domain through the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). It is the first time a world patent chemistry collection has been made… Read More
Emerald teams with the Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative to promote research - December 12, 2013
In 2011, academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing set up an informal arrangement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries initiative, which aims to provide public access to information through computers in public libraries. Under this arrangement, Emerald publishes the findings of the Global Libraries… Read More
