F1000Research brings static research figures to life - July 31, 2014
F1000Research has published a new research from Bjorn Brembs, professor of neurogenetics at the Institute of Zoology, Universitaet Regensburg, in Germany, with a proof-of-concept figure allowing readers and reviewers to run the underlying code within the online article. This represents an important leap forward for scientific… Read More
Healthcare sciences publisher PLM partners with IBM to launch mobile apps to deliver better patient care - July 28, 2014
Multinational technology and consulting corporation IBM has announced that PLM, a Latin American healthcare sciences publisher, has launched a library of mobile apps to deliver medical information on conditions such as cancer and heart disease. Healthcare providers using a mobile device can… Read More
First articles published in new fully Open Access journals from EDP Open - July 18, 2014
EDP Open, the new Open Access imprint from EDP Sciences, has announced the publication of the first articles in its newly launched fully Gold Open Access journals Manufacturing Review and EPJ Applied Metamaterials. Manufacturing Review is a forum for presenting the latest advances, developments and… Read More
Frontiers and University College London continue open-access publishing agreement - July 11, 2014
UCL joins a growing number of institutions that support authors to publish with Frontiers, including the Max Planck Society, Bielefeld University, University of Nottingham, University of Stuttgart and others. Swiss open-access publisher and research network, Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing… Read More
QScience.com’s Qatar Medical Journal now indexed in PUBMED Central - July 10, 2014
QScience.com has announced that Qatar Medical Journal (QMJ) is now indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), the world's largest and most-used biomedical literature database. PubMed Central is a freely-available database of full-text articles on life sciences and biomedical topics. Citations and abstracts of all QMJ articles will… Read More
PeerJ appoints Georgina Gurnhill as new Director of Marketing & Communications - July 9, 2014
PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, has announced the appointment of Georgina Gurnhill into a new role of Director of Marketing & Communications, effective July 1. Based out of the publisher's London office, Georgina is the go-to-person… Read More