Global submission rates for academic journals at their highest level in six years, says new report - June 5, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters has released a new report affirming global submission rates for academic journals are at their highest level in six years. The ScholarOne Manuscripts report, Global Publishing: Changes in submission trends and the impact on scholarly publishers,… Read More
Springer and the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library Consortium sign licensing agreement - June 5, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library Consortium (SHEDL) recently signed an agreement for access to electronic journal subscriptions and eBooks on Springer’s platform SpringerLink. Every SHEDL member will now have access to an enormous database of content consisting of nearly 2,000… Read More
New Publishers Association and ALPSP report on the potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo - June 4, 2012
The Publishers Association and the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP) have released a report titled ‘The potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo.’ The report found that an across-the-board mandate might have a material effect… Read More
PEER Project presents results of study at Brussels event - June 1, 2012
The PEER Project held its final event to present the results on May 29 in Brussels. More than 100 attendees from the research, university and STM publishing communities, as well as policy makers, attended the conference. Comments by Vice President Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) from the… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair’s Frankfurt StoryDrive makes debut appearance in Beijing - June 1, 2012
The Frankfurt Book Fair’s all-media platform, Frankfurt StoryDrive recently made its debut appearance in Beijing. The first conference in Asia to explore new forms of collaboration and business models across media boundaries, this two-day event brought together 350 attendees to listen to and meet with games… Read More
STM welcomes PEER conference’s support for gold open access - May 30, 2012
‘Gold’ open access (OA) publication is the practical route to achieving sustainable OA, the project partners have agreed at the PEER End of Project results conference in Brussels. The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project, which will report to the European Commission in… Read More
