John Wiley & Sons announces addition of Altmetric data to its journal program - July 9, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the addition of Altmetric data to its journal program, a service that provides a more complete picture of how users engage with scholarly research online. Following the success of a six-month pilot on Wiley Open Access titles in… Read More
Zoological Letters joins BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform - July 3, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Zoological Letters, the official academic journal of The Zoological Society of Japan (ZSJ), will be launched from BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. Zoological Letters considers original contributions relevant to zoology and related fields in the form… Read More
European Research Organisations call on Elsevier to withdraw TDM policy - July 2, 2014
Eighteen European research and library organisations, including LIBER, have called on STM publisher Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM). The organisations have laid out their request in an open letter to Michiel Kolman, Senior VP Global Academic Relations at the… Read More
Elsevier announces February 2015 launch of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences journal - July 1, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new review journal - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. The journal serves as an educational forum for review papers providing updates on the expanding volume of information published in the field of behavioural sciences. Papers will… Read More
Elsevier launches Geofacets Connector for Schlumberger Petrel and Studio, makes exploration seamless for Geoscientists - June 27, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Geofacets Connector for Schlumberger Petrel and Studio. Geofacets Connector for Petrel and Studio integrates hundreds of thousands of maps and associated papers seamlessly with the Petrel platform's analysis and workflow tools. Using Geofacets Connector for Petrel and… Read More
Elsevier’s new Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences provides biomedical and life science researchers with new source of current, trustworthy reference content - June 26, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced its new Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, which will provide biomedical and life science researchers with access to reference content updated as science progresses. It is currently available for pre-sale. Access for users will begin on ScienceDirect in late 2014. Reference… Read More
