Springer and Bookshare in deal to make content available globally to people with print disabilities - July 16, 2013
STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement to provide Bookshare with world rights to its titles. Bookshare provides people with visual impairments, physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities access to copyrighted digital accessible books. Springer published more than 7,500 book titles in 2012, and it is home… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces Impact Factor gains across its LWW journal portfolio and Medknow OA titles - July 16, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced impact factor gains across its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio and Medknow open access titles with the release of the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2012 Journal Citation Reports®… Read More
LexisNexis merges MEDai into healthcare business - July 16, 2013
LexisNexis Risk Solutions recently completed an agreement with its sister company Elsevier to transfer MEDai, its clinical-analytics-focused business unit, to the LexisNexis healthcare business. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Elsevier are both part of Reed Elsevier Group plc. The combined organisation will allow LexisNexis to offer… Read More
Nature Communications’ and Scientific Reports’ submission and publication rates continue to grow rapidly - July 15, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are now the fastest growing journals published by NPG. Launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively, both journals reached the milestone of 2000 published papers in June 2013, and their submission and publication… Read More
Emerald announces winners of 17th Annual Citation of Excellence Awards - July 15, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their seventeenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. These include Harvard… Read More
Ukrainian research institutions to benefit from broader access to Elsevier content and solutions - July 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its cooperation with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science in order to provide access to Elsevier's scientific databases for sixty Ukrainian research institutions. A Declaration of Intent for Cooperation has been signed by the Ministry of Education and Science… Read More
