Wiley partners with the University of Delaware to support extension of graduate education to new student markets - July 13, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with the University of Delaware that will support the extension of the University's graduate education to new student markets. The partnership will help grow the current online Master of Education in Teacher Leadership program,… Read More
Hindawi concludes in-depth investigation into peer review fraud - July 13, 2015
In November 2014 BioMed Central announced that it had uncovered systematic abuse within the peer review process of a number of its journals. This abuse seems to have been coordinated by a number of third-party agencies that were helping authors to get published in well-respected scholarly… Read More
Emerald and Kudos extend partnership after authors benefit from record pilot - July 13, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has extended its partnership with Kudos - an online platform that helps increase the impact of published articles - to roll out the value-add service for Emerald authors. The move follows a successful trial period in 2014,… Read More
AAAS acquires Peer Review Evaluation service to help promote transparency and public trust in science - July 13, 2015
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the acquisition of 'Peer Review Evaluation' (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original research more transparent and verifiable. Offering… Read More
Elsevier unveils seven new food science and safety books at Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT15 conference - July 10, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of seven new food science books, including Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems edited by Steven Ricke, Janet Donaldson and Carol Phillips. In this book, experts in the field discuss recent scientific innovations and complex challenges, to improve… Read More
PeerJ becomes a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Committee Guidelines - July 10, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has expressed its commitment to the principles of transparency in scientific research by becoming a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee Guidelines, a set of author guidelines that journals can adopt to enhance the transparency of the research they… Read More
