MDPI appoints Professor Kyo-Beum Lee as Section Editor-in-Chief of Power Electronics - January 4, 2019
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has appointed Professor Dr. Kyo-Beum Lee as a Section Editor-in-Chief of 'Power Electronics' in Electronics. Professor Lee's term started in January 2019. Professor Lee's research interests include electric machine drives, renewable power generation, and electric vehicle applications.… Read More
De Gruyter and ISU University Library sign landmark ‘read and publish’ agreement - January 3, 2019
Academic publisher De Gruyter and the Iowa State University (ISU) University Library have signed a landmark 'read and publish' agreement which represents the first of its kind for De Gruyter in North America. The pilot agreement, which runs for three years beginning with 2019, allows… Read More
MDPI announces new platform – Encyclopedia - January 3, 2019
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced a new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. The platform aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public… Read More
American Journal of Nursing announces 2018 Book of the Year Awards - December 31, 2018
Wolters Kluwer, Health and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) have announced the 2018 winners of its annual AJN Book of the Year Awards honouring exceptional texts for advancing healthcare quality. The list of winners appears in the January 2019 issue of… Read More
Topics related to blockchain and cryptocurrency dominate SSRN scholarly research repository - December 31, 2018
SSRN, a scholarly research repository owned by scientific, technical, and medical information publishing company Elsevier, concludes that FinTech is the fastest growing area of research on its platform. Data from a recently released study by the company reveals that the most popular papers on SSRN deal… Read More
Springer Nature announces OA agreement with Electronic Information Service National Programme - December 24, 2018
Springer Nature and the Hungarian Academic Consortium (EISZ) have announced an agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in one single framework. Effective from January 2019, researchers from the participating consortium institutions will gain access to over 2,000 Springer journals and will have… Read More