Knowledge Unlatched to make 343 HSS books Open Access - February 24, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, will be unlatching all 147 front list and 196 backlist e-books from the KU Select 2016 collection. Around 270 libraries and consortia from 21 countries pledged towards the unlatching of… Read More
Elsevier announces publication of five psychology titles - February 15, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal by Cheryl Meyer, Taronish Irani, Katherine Hermes and Betty Yung. It is the first large-scale analysis of suicide motivation across multiple ages in the same time period, made possible via… Read More
BMC Research Notes to re-focus on dark data, bite-size and negative results - February 14, 2017
BMC Research Notes, an open access journal from BioMed Central, will re-focus on its original mission of accepting submissions for short publications, incremental updates to previous work, results of individual experiments and similar material that lacks a suitable publication outlet. While returning to its roots with… Read More
SAGE publishes The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research - February 10, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research, providing a comprehensive account of education research today. The Handbook provides a comprehensive guide for researchers, both new and existing, as well as a resource to prompt further thinking about… Read More
Wolters Kluwer to publish Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - February 9, 2017
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced a new, long-term publishing partnership with The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons® (ABJS). Beginning in 2018, the journal's 65th anniversary, Wolters Kluwer will… Read More
IET launches inaugural issue of new OA journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications - February 8, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published the first issue of its latest open access journal - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal covers emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS)… Read More