New PCG study shows 23 percent of libraries cover APCs for author submissions to OA journals - October 29, 2014
Marketing and sales consulting firm Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology, has released the results of a new survey, according to which, academic libraries are getting more involved in the cataloguing and funding of Gold Open Access (OA) publications. Gold Open Access, though… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new fully responsive app for Physics World magazine - October 29, 2014
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, has launched a new fully responsive app for its world-renowned Physics World magazine. The Physics World team has worked closely with leading software house Kaldor, to create the first digital magazine of its kind in physics publishing. Replacing… Read More
Unbound Medicine releases Ebola Guidelines, a new resource available as part of the free Relief Central mobile app - October 23, 2014
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the release of Ebola Guidelines, a new resource available as part of the free Relief Central mobile app. Ebola Guidelines consolidates and organises the latest diagnosis, management, and prevention recommendations… Read More
Kudos and Thomson Reuters partner to add citation data to author dashboards - October 23, 2014
Kudos, which helps researchers and institutions maximise the impact and visibility of their publications, has announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters through which Kudos author dashboards will be augmented with citation data from Web of Science, the premier web-based platform for scientific search and discovery and… Read More
NPG and Palgrave Macmillan make data from Author Insights survey publicly available as part of Open Access Week - October 21, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. The survey, which contains views from 30,466 researchers, is the biggest publisher survey of authors’ views to… Read More
International Open Access Week shines spotlight on increasing the impact of scientific research - October 20, 2014
Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power that Open Access has to increase the impact of scientific and scholarly research during the seventh annual Open Access Week taking place from October 20-26, 2014. This year's theme of 'Generation Open' highlights the important role… Read More
