PeerJ raises Series A investment from SAGE and O’Reilly - July 10, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE and PeerJ Inc., publisher of the Open Access journal PeerJ and pre-print server PeerJ PrePrints, have announced that SAGE has led a new investment as part of a second round of funding for PeerJ. With the investment, SAGE joins… Read More
SLACK Inc. appoints Michael Burton as Director, Sales and Business Development - July 10, 2014
SLACK Incorporated, publisher of O&P Business News, has announced the appointment of Michael Burton, a recognised leader in the orthotics and prosthetics industry, as Director, Sales and Business Development for the company. An active member of O&P Business News' Industry Advisory Council since 2005, Michael… Read More
QScience.com’s Qatar Medical Journal now indexed in PUBMED Central - July 10, 2014
QScience.com has announced that Qatar Medical Journal (QMJ) is now indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), the world's largest and most-used biomedical literature database. PubMed Central is a freely-available database of full-text articles on life sciences and biomedical topics. Citations and abstracts of all QMJ articles will… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – New Negatives in Plant Science - July 9, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an open access, online-only journal - New Negatives in Plant Science. The journal will publish research focusing on negative, unexpected or controversial results in fundamental plant sciences. Published work will include research articles and short communications, as… Read More
John Wiley & Sons announces addition of Altmetric data to its journal program - July 9, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the addition of Altmetric data to its journal program, a service that provides a more complete picture of how users engage with scholarly research online. Following the success of a six-month pilot on Wiley Open Access titles in… Read More
SAGE retracts 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring at the Journal of Vibration and Control - July 9, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring at the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC). The full extent of the peer review ring has been uncovered following a 14 month SAGE-led investigation, and centres on… Read More
