Cogent OA announces major upgrade to its user interface, supports research discovery and impact - September 18, 2014
Cogent OA, an Open Access publisher backed by Taylor & Francis, has released a major upgrade to its user interface. Cogent OA's new platform focuses on assisting authors in ensuring their work gets found and read by the broadest possible audience; and… Read More
SAGE partners with Golden Goose Award to support seemingly peculiar research that makes a big impact - September 17, 2014
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced its partnering sponsorship of the 2014 Golden Goose Award. Conceived in 2012 by Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN), the purpose of the award is to honour researchers whose federally funded work may not have seemed to have significant practical applications… Read More
Future Science Group announces significant Impact Factor increases for two of its key journals - September 17, 2014
Publisher Future Science Group has announced significant Impact Factor increases for two of its key journals - Epigenomics and Nanomedicine. The Impact Factor of Epigenomics increased 115 percent to 5.215, while Nanomedicine increased 11 percent to 5.824. Three other titles also posted increases: Future Virology… Read More
Australian Research Council selects Elsevier’s Scopus for ERA 2015 assessment - September 16, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier recently announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has selected Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific literature, as the bibliometric provider for its 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. This is the third consecutive time Scopus has… Read More
Nature Publishing Group partners with The Systems Biology Institute to launch OA journal npj Systems Biology and Applications - September 16, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has announced a new partnership with The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, to launch npj Systems Biology and Applications, an online open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality research. The journal will begin accepting submissions in November 2014 and publish its… Read More
SAGE acquires Symposium Journals, strengthens education journal portfolio - September 16, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of education journals publisher, Symposium Journals Limited. The sale was announced jointly by Roger Osborn-King of Symposium Journals and Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Global Publishing Director. With a journals publishing career spanning nearly 40 years, Roger founded Symposium Journals… Read More
