Nature Index: A new global indicator for high quality science shows growing strength of China - November 13, 2014
The growing contribution to science of Chinese institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences is one striking pattern revealed in the recently launched Nature Index. High quality science outputs of 20,000 institutions worldwide can now be easily analysed with the new Nature… Read More
CABI upgrades to COUNTER4 for product usage statistics - November 12, 2014
CABI has announced that it has upgraded to COUNTER version 4 (COUNTER4) for its product usage statistics. Reports are now available for CABI products hosted on CAB Direct and the CABI platform. By moving to the latest version of COUNTER usage statistics, CABI remains COUNTER compliant,… Read More
First Nature Partner Journal based in Australia, npj Quantum Information, launches at UNSW - November 6, 2014
A new scientific journal - npj Quantum Information - focusing on the rapidly developing areas of quantum research that promise to revolutionise the processing and transmission of information has been launched at UNSW by the Federal Minister for Education Christopher Pyne. npj Quantum Information is an international open-access journal and… Read More
IOP Publishing collaborates with JournalMap - November 5, 2014
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, and USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have signed an agreement to add more than 1000 articles from IOP's journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL) to the JournalMap literature discovery database. JournalMap's vision is to help scientists find out what… Read More
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing, says NPG/ Palgrave Macmillan survey - November 3, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and its sister company, Palgrave Macmillan, recently conducted a survey, which notes that the open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But most academic research remains behind expensive… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new fully responsive app for Physics World magazine - October 29, 2014
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, has launched a new fully responsive app for its world-renowned Physics World magazine. The Physics World team has worked closely with leading software house Kaldor, to create the first digital magazine of its kind in physics publishing. Replacing… Read More
