F1000Research launches data plotting tool at Neuroscience meeting in San Diego - November 12, 2013
Open Access life-sciences journal F1000Research launched a new data plotting tool at the ongoing Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. The tool enables referees and readers to visualise and manipulate the raw data within the journal's articles. This is a significant step forward in enabling data peer… Read More
IDSA announces new OA journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases - November 12, 2013
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has named Dr. Paul Sax as the editor-in-chief of the Society's new peer-reviewed, open access journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID). Oxford University Press (OUP) will begin publishing the new journal in early 2014. OFID will seek to… Read More
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems set to launch in mid-2014 - November 11, 2013
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the mid-2014 launch of the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS). The journal will cover fundamental research and applications focused on the full range of astronomical instrumentation. The new journal responds to the… Read More
Elsevier and the Neuroscience Information Framework collaborate to improve reporting of research in neuroscience literature - November 8, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its collaboration with the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), by incorporating the Minimal Data Standards across four of its neuroscience journals. Minimal Data Standards are a set of recommendations developed by NIF, the most comprehensive portal of available web-based resources in… Read More
Springer and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute announce publishing agreement - November 8, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) in the US have signed a publishing agreement to collaborate on the Mathematical Biosciences Institute Graduate Lecture Series. The lecture series consists of readable, up-to-date collections of authored volumes that are tutorial in nature and are inspired… Read More
New Delhi to host first Macmillan Science Communication scientific writing and publishing workshop - November 8, 2013
Macmillan Science Communication (MSC), an exclusive partner of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), has announced its first workshop in New Delhi on November 29, 2013. Sponsored by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the intensive workshop will help one hundred researchers from across India improve… Read More
