Emerald Group Publishing joins ‘Access to Research’ initiative - March 4, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has joined the 'Access to Research' initiative. Led by The Publishers Licensing Society, the scheme brings together UK publishers and librarians to make over 1.5 million academic articles freely accessible to the British public. The two-year pilot was set up… Read More
Elsevier study throws light on India’s performance as benchmarked against other research nations - March 4, 2014
A recent study prepared by Elsevier for the UK's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and based on Scopus data, shows that India has achieved substantial growth in research articles output, increasing from 54 thousand in 2008 to 93 thousand in 2012 at an annualized… Read More
Dr. Vasant Dhar, Director of NYU Stern’s Center for Business Analytics, named Editor-in-Chief of Big Data journal - February 28, 2014
Big Data, an innovative, peer-reviewed journal that provides a unique forum for world-class big data research, has announced the appointment of Dr. Vasant Dhar, Professor, Head of the Information Systems Group, and Director of the Center for Business Analytics at New York University Stern School of Business, as the new… Read More
SAGE acquires The Goodwin Group International, LLC - February 28, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the acquisition of The Goodwin Group International, LLC, publisher of MD Conference Express®, the first publication to subject medical conference highlights to the rigorous test of peer review. The acquisition will strengthen SAGE’s ability to disseminate peer-reviewed content in medical… Read More
International Journal of Surgery affiliated with New York Surgical Society - February 28, 2014
The New York Surgical Society (NYSS) has decided to affiliate with the International Journal of Surgery in an agreement that gives members of the Society easy access to the important research published by the journal and marks the growth in the journal's international reach. The… Read More
Wiley, Kudos in deal to help authors maximise article impact - February 28, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with Kudos, a start-up service designed to help academics and learned societies measure, monitor and maximise the visibility and impact of their published articles. From April 2014, the Kudos platform will be freely available across… Read More
