IFLA to continue fight for access to knowledge at 33rd meeting of the SCCR at the World Intellectual Property Organisation - November 14, 2016
Libraries in too many countries around the world lack the basic laws needed to do the best by their communities. And even where laws exist, they frequently fail to take account of the realities of the digital age. As such, the gap between what our communities expect and what libraries… Read More
Plum Analytics expands Clinical Citations metrics in its PlumX Suite to include clinical practice guidelines indexed in PubMed - November 11, 2016
PlumTM Analytics, an EBSCO company, has expanded its Clinical Citations metrics in its PlumX Suite to include clinical practice guidelines indexed in PubMed®. Researchers now have an additional way to see the impact of their work in clinical practice by tracking when their research is cited… Read More
Authorea acquires research publisher The Winnower - November 11, 2016
Authorea, the online collaborative platform for researchers, has acquired The Winnower, a pioneering research publisher that offers advanced publishing tools to individual authors. With the acquisition, Authorea seeks to enhance the foremost online platform for researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data,… Read More
Nature Communications to incorporate transparent peer review following a successful ten-month trial - November 10, 2016
Nature Communications is incorporating transparent peer review into the journal on a permanent basis, following a successful ten-month trial. In this scheme, authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of the paper alongside their published research. All papers submitted from January 2016 qualify for this scheme.… Read More
Stephen McLeod appointed Editor-in-Chief of Ophthalmology Journal - November 10, 2016
Dr. Stephen McLeod, the Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill, MD, Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at UC San Francisco, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Ophthalmology, the official journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He will assume the new role effective… Read More
EBSCO Health appoints Dr. Terence K. Trow as Deputy Editor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine - November 9, 2016
EBSCO Health has announced the appointment of Dr. Terence K. Trow as the Deputy Editor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Trow brings nearly 30 years of medical, teaching, research and editorial experience to EBSCO Health's evidence-based clinical reference tool, DynaMed Plus®. Dr. Trow… Read More
