Hindawi and SciencePOD partner to magnify impact of published research - April 10, 2019
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced a new partnership with SciencePOD, a network of highly talented and multilingual science writers. SciencePOD will work with Hindawi to help the scientific research published in their journals to reach a wider audience through clear and concise highlights of selected… Read More
Kudos appoints Michael Tadman as its Sales Director - April 10, 2019
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has appointed Michael Tadman as Sales Director. Michael has over twenty years of sales experience, with a decade in senior executive positions. His previous roles included Sales Director at Elsevier and Vice-President Higher… Read More
Springer Nature and Cancer Research UK partner to offer researchers with data management training - April 9, 2019
Academic publishing company Springer Nature has partnered with Cancer Research UK to offer their researchers practical support that will increase data sharing and best practice. Early career researchers, clinical fellows and in-house research support staff at Cancer Research UK will participate in specially tailored research data… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces major OA agreement with Max Planck Society - April 9, 2019
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major Open Access agreement with Germany’s Max Planck Society (MPG). This builds on the ‘read and publish’ agreement coordinated by the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB) with financial support from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new open-access journal, Machine Learning: Science and Technology - April 9, 2019
IOP Publishing has launched Machine Learning: Science and Technology, a new fully open access, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the application and development of machine learning for the sciences. The application of machine learning methods is rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for new scientific discovery.… Read More
New report suggests higher scholarly impact if South Asian countries collaborate globally, but intra-regional collaboration may be key to tackling local challenges, says new report - April 8, 2019
A joint report by Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the World Bank, shows that over a five-year period between 2012 and 2016, the South Asian region published 679,571 papers, accounting for 5.3 percent of the world’s scholarly output—increasing the region’s… Read More