AIP Publishing names Prof. Lesley F. Cohen as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Letters - July 2, 2019
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced the appointment of Lesley F. Cohen, Imperial College London, as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Letters (APL). Cohen currently holds a number of educational and administrative roles at Imperial College London. Professor Cohen’s research… Read More
Wiley in deal to acquire Zyante Inc. - July 1, 2019
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Zyante Inc., a leading provider of computer science and STEM education courseware. Under the terms of the agreement, which will close on July 1, 2019, Zyante shareholders will receive $56 million in cash. Zyante was… Read More
IOP Publishing initiates open data trial - July 1, 2019
IOP Publishing is trialing a new data policy on three of its journals to encourage and support authors to make the data underpinning their article more accessible. The trial will begin in July on the journals Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Physics: Complexity, and Machine… Read More
PLOS collaborates with ORCID to include credit for reviewers - June 28, 2019
PLOS has announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can take advantage of the same benefits to track… Read More
All ARPHA-hosted journals indexed in Transpose to support transparency in journal policies - June 28, 2019
All open-access, peer-reviewed academic titles of Pensoft, as well as those using the white-label publishing solution provided by the scholarly publishing platform ARPHA, have their journal policy data fed into the Transpose database, in order to increase their discoverability and transparency. As a result of… Read More
EDP Sciences journals reports impressive results in 2019 Journal Citation Reports - June 28, 2019
EDP Sciences has reported excellent results in the 2019 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) published by Clarivate Analytics. Twenty-one EDP Sciences journals are tracked, over half of which show an increase in their Impact Factor with nine increasing by over 10%. Astronomy &… Read More
