Oxford University Press includes first licensed-in content from academic publishers in Oxford Scholarly Editions Online - October 26, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that the first content from licensing agreements with several leading academic publishers is now available on Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO). This October's update includes the 20-volume University of California Press edition of the Works of John… Read More
Elsevier collaborates with University College London to predict functionality of novel proteins to aid the discovery of new drug targets - October 23, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it is collaborating with University College London (UCL) to analyze the applicability, scope and scientific viability, and value of protein function predictions. UCL will use Pathway Studio, part of Elsevier's R&D Solutions for Pharma & Life Sciences, to analyse and… Read More
Innovative open access agreement between Springer and Jisc to benefit UK researchers - October 23, 2015
Researchers in the UK will now be able to publish their articles open access in over 1,600 Springer hybrid journals without cost barriers or administrative barriers. The Springer Compact agreement is a pilot that combines open access publishing and subscription access in one annual fee and… Read More
NWO and Brill join forces in research on handwriting and image recognition - October 23, 2015
A consortium of computer scientists, historians of science and heritage professionals has been awarded funding by NWO for a research project on making illustrated handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives was submitted jointly by the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS), Naturalis Biodiversity… Read More
Future Medicinal Chemistry releases themed issue on the growing role of academia in drug discovery - October 23, 2015
Future Medicinal Chemistry, a MEDLINE-indexed journal published by Future Science Group, has released a themed issue dedicated to providing coverage of the presentations that took place at the 2015 Academic Drug Discovery Conference (Cambridge, UK), organised by SelectBio. The themed issue, which… Read More
Max Planck Society researchers to benefit from OA agreement with Springer - October 21, 2015
STM publisher Springer and the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany have signed an agreement which allows Max Planck researchers to publish their papers open access in more than 1,600 Springer subscription journals and access to over 2,000 Springer journals in total. The Springer Compact agreement,… Read More
