Cogent OA launches Freedom APCs, an experimental model designed to test affordability in the uptake of Open Access - March 30, 2015
Cogent OA, an Open Access publisher backed by the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced the launch of Freedom APCs – an experimental new model designed to help match article publishing charges (APCs) to an author's ability to pay. Through Cogent OA's Freedom APC model,… Read More
Nature Index 2015: Asia-Pacific region maintains reputation for high-quality scientific research - March 27, 2015
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has maintained its world-leading reputation for high-quality scientific research, according to the Nature Index APAC supplement 2015, published as a supplement of Nature. APAC nations contributed more than 25 percent of articles included in the Nature Index database in 2014. China… Read More
CAB Direct reaches 11 million record milestones - March 27, 2015
Global academic publisher CABI has announced that its bibliographic platform CAB Direct has reached the milestone of 11 million records. CABI's in-house platform, CAB Direct, hosts CAB Abstracts the leading English language bibliographic database covering the applied life sciences. Updated weekly, CAB Direct now offers… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences launch first Nature Partner Journal in China - March 26, 2015
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) has signed an official agreement with Nature Publishing Group to launch the first Nature Partner Journal in China, npj Computational Materials. The open access Nature Partner Journals (NPJ) publish high-quality research in collaboration… Read More
Professor Joachim Sauer joins the Editorial Board of Journal of Catalysis - March 26, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the editorial team of Journal of Catalysis are delighted to announce that Professor Joachim Sauer of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin has joined Professors Johannes Lercher, Christophe Copéret, Graham Hutchings, Matthew Neurock, Hans Niemantsverdriet, S. Ted Oyama and Fabio Ribeiro as Editor of Journal… Read More
Biomedical researchers look to post-publication peer review to build grant funding case - March 26, 2015
Jason McDermott, a Senior Research Scientist in computational biology and bioinformatics at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, USA, has become one of the first to publish online his preliminary research methodology and data to gain peer reviews that he hopes will strengthen his R01 grant application to the… Read More
