John Wiley & Sons launches ‘Anywhere Article’ across Wiley Online Library - February 20, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of its next generation enhanced HTML article, the "Anywhere Article", which puts readability, interaction, and portability at the heart of the user experience. Until now, options for downloading and viewing journal articles have often been… Read More
QScience to use Rubriq’s standardised, independent peer review tool - February 19, 2014
Open access publisher Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation has announced that it will partner with Rubriq, complementing its own peer review process for its journals on QScience.com with the latter's groundbreaking scorecard, a standardised, independent peer review tool developed to speed publication and improve trust in the peer… Read More
Conflict and Health editors invite authors to submit papers for special series on health systems in FCAS - February 19, 2014
The Editors of Conflict and Health, a BioMed Central publication, in collaboration with the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems on Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS), are inviting authors to submit papers presenting research articles, case studies, methodologies and reviews on health systems in FCAS. … Read More
Springer to publish official journal of the Italian Society of Nephrology - February 19, 2014
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the Journal of Nephrology, the official publication of the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN), beginning in 2014. The new agreement will enable the journal to expand and strengthen its mission to stimulate advancements in medicine, focusing on… Read More
Nature Publishing Group signs major agreement with French national licensing programme ISTEX - February 18, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has signed a major agreement with the French national licensing programme ISTEX, to make key scientific resources available to the French research community. More than 1.9 million students, researchers and scientists at over 200 French universities and institutions will… Read More
The Royal Society’s new open-access title to publish papers covering a range of STEM disciplines - February 18, 2014
The Royal Society has announced the launch of Royal Society Open Science, a new open-access journal that will publish papers from a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The Royal Society's new journal will boast some non-traditional features, such as the option for… Read More