Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange named best of 2012 in ‘Tech & Learning’ Awards of Excellence - January 9, 2013
Pearson's Online Learning Exchange (OLE) – an innovative web- and mobile-ready learning platform – earned top honours in the 2012 'Tech & Learning' Awards of Excellence. Celebrating its 30th year, this recognition programme honours K-12 technology products that break new ground, as well as those that… Read More
Elsevier acquires Knovel - January 8, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Knovel Corp. Knovel provides a web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Founded in 2001, Knovel has developed a deep knowledge of the engineering… Read More
‘Journal of Medical Case Reports’ offers discounted article processing charge - January 8, 2013
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has announced that it is offering a discounted article processing charge to Journal of Medical Case Reports authors and expanding the scope of its Case Report of the Year Award. The moves are to celebrate the launch of Cases Database,… Read More
India witnessing ‘brain gain’ rather than ‘brain drain’, says Elsevier study - January 7, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has said that, according to its recent analysis, India has a 0.6 percent net inflow of scientists. It also said that the incoming scientists and short-term visiting (or transitory) scientists are significantly more productive than scientists who remain in India and scientists that… Read More
BMJ Group releases instructions for authors now in Chinese - January 7, 2013
Medical information provider BMJ Group, UK, has released instructions for authors of all its journals in Chinese to further its leadership in improving health and clinical practice worldwide. The service covers the BMJ as well as the Group's 40 specialty medical journals. Researchers and clinicians… Read More
Biochemical Society and Portland Press announce free to all journals - January 7, 2013
The Biochemical Society and its wholly owned subsidiary, Portland Press Limited, a not-for-profit publisher, have announced that all of its subscription-based journals have been made entirely free to access online. This access is only available until midnight on January 31, 2013. Now freely available, research… Read More
