Kudos partners with Research Media and Research Square to increase readership and impact for research publications - March 23, 2016
Kudos, the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has partnered with Research Media and Research Square to explore the value of professionally-created lay summaries, infographics and videos in increasing readership and impact for research publications. Through these pilot programs, Kudos offers… Read More
Five new Nature titles announced - March 11, 2016
Five new titles will join the Nature family of journals in January 2017. These include Nature Astronomy, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Reviews Chemistry. These new journals expand the Nature portfolio to serve rapidly growing scientific communities, particularly in… Read More
AAAS announces integration of Peer Review Evaluation service across the Science family of journals - March 10, 2016
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the integration of the Peer Review Evaluation (PRE) service across the Science family of journals to provide readers with greater confidence in the integrity of the publishing process, and new insights into the peer-review of… Read More
Journal of Science Teacher Education now approved for subsidies by South African authors - March 7, 2016
The Journal of Science Teacher Education (JSTE), by virtue of its membership in Scopus (the largest database of peer reviewed journals), is now approved for subsidies by South African authors. In South Africa, and many other countries, authors receive subsidies for articles that they publish in… Read More
Lila M. Gierasch named as new Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Biological Chemistry - March 4, 2016
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology have announced that Lila M. Gierasch, a distinguished faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be the next editor in chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the nonprofit's peer-reviewed journal. Gierasch's five-year term will… Read More
Nature Publishing Group partners with Nanjing Tech University to publish npj Flexible Electronics - March 3, 2016
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, has signed an agreement with Nanjing Tech University to co-publish a new open access journal npj Flexible Electronics. With the new journal, both parties aim to build up a top-tier interdisciplinary platform for scientists to share… Read More