InnoCentive and Scientific American partner to facilitate open innovation - December 13, 2012
Science magazine Scientific American and InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, have announced a partnership for an online hub that seeks to help science enthusiasts solve global scientific problems. The Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, scheduled to go live in… Read More
BioMed Central publishes manuscripts in ePUB format - December 12, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has announced that the company now publishes manuscripts in ePUB format. This device-neutral format allows readers to view articles on any eReader. The eReader and eBook market has seen rapid growth in recent years with high profile launches of… Read More
Elsevier and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University announce collaboration - December 11, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its collaboration with the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), the leading University of Russia's Far Eastern Consortium. The 5-year collaboration agreement includes access to ScienceDirect and Scopus for all Consortium members from January 2013 onwards. Russia's Far Eastern Federal district… Read More
Springer launches new journal with the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging - December 11, 2012
STM publisher Springer has announced the launch of a new journal - Clinical and Translational Imaging: Reviews in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The bi-monthly publication will be the official journal of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (AIMN) as of 2013. … Read More
SAGE and Royal College of General Practitioners announce publishing agreement - December 11, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have announced a new publishing agreement. Under the deal, SAGE will publish RCGP's journal InnovAiT, a monthly publication edited by Dr Chantal Simon, from January 2013. InnovAiT is the RCGP's journal developed to support… Read More
BioMed Central unveils semantically enriched search tool, Cases Database - December 11, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has launched a new semantically-enriched search tool, Cases Database, which aims to enhance the discovery, filtering and aggregation of medical case reports from many journals. OA to journal articles published under Creative Commons licences, which permit text mining, enable the… Read More
