Knovel’s engineering content now discoverable via EBSCO Discovery Service - July 14, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that content from Knovel, an engineering decision-support solution, is discoverable through the EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The integration allows mutual customers to combine answers from high quality engineering references within a unified search platform, as well as directly access Knovel subscription… Read More
BioMed Central launches Archives of Physiotherapy journal in partnership with the Italian Society of Physiotherapy and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland - July 13, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central has launched Archives of Physiotherapy in partnership with the Italian Society of Physiotherapy and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Archives of Physiotherapy is one of the few open access journals specializing solely in the subject of… Read More
Wiley partners with the University of Delaware to support extension of graduate education to new student markets - July 13, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with the University of Delaware that will support the extension of the University's graduate education to new student markets. The partnership will help grow the current online Master of Education in Teacher Leadership program,… Read More
Hindawi concludes in-depth investigation into peer review fraud - July 13, 2015
In November 2014 BioMed Central announced that it had uncovered systematic abuse within the peer review process of a number of its journals. This abuse seems to have been coordinated by a number of third-party agencies that were helping authors to get published in well-respected scholarly… Read More
Elsevier unveils seven new food science and safety books at Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT15 conference - July 10, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of seven new food science books, including Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems edited by Steven Ricke, Janet Donaldson and Carol Phillips. In this book, experts in the field discuss recent scientific innovations and complex challenges, to improve… Read More
Elsevier and US National Cancer Institute implement reciprocal linking between research articles and datasets - July 9, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI's cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal. The NCI is part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). caNanoLab provides facilities for… Read More