Elsevier announces six new neurological diseases titles in recognition of Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and Caregivers Month - November 4, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Drug Discovery Approaches for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Alzheimer's Disease, edited by Adeboye Adejare. The book aims to improve drug discovery and development for neurodegenerative disorders by focusing on current knowledge and strategies in Alzheimer's disease (AD).… Read More
VGTU Press and Pensoft launch joint pilot project for open access peer-reviewed journal Business: Theory and Practice - November 3, 2016
In a new joint pilot project, the open access peer-reviewed journal Business: Theory and Practice (BTP), issued by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press since 2000, runs on the new journal publishing platform ARPHA, developed by Pensoft. ARPHA provides end-to-end technological solution… Read More
Healthcare Technology Letters to publish under gold open access model from 2017 - November 3, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that from 2017, its rapid-publication journal Healthcare Technology Letters (HTL) will publish under a gold open access model. The journal will also increase in frequency from 4 issues to 6 issues per year. Launched in 2014,… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish GigaScience - October 31, 2016
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its partnership with BGI. Beginning January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP) will publish the open-access, open-data journal, GigaScience. The journal has an international and multidisciplinary editorial board led by Dr. Laurie Goodman as Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Scott Edmunds… Read More
CABI’s first open access book tackles global health - October 27, 2016
Scientific publisher CABI, has published its first open access book - Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa. Written by Gemma Aellah, Tracey Chantler and P. Wenzel Geissler, this book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas… Read More
ALPSP publishes special OA issue of Learned Publishing journal - October 13, 2016
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced the publication of a special open access issue of their journal Learned Publishing. The University Press Redux comprises articles arising from the conference of the same name held in March and hosted by Liverpool University… Read More