Digital delivery breathes new life into professional books and scholarly monographs, says new Simba report - March 23, 2018
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report titled 'Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2018-2022.' The report examines the scholarly and professional market including e-books in law, business, scientific and technical, medical, and social science and humanities. It found… Read More
Japan continues to decline in its overall contribution to high-quality scientific output, new analysis from the Nature Index reveals - March 22, 2018
A new analysis from the Nature Index has revealed that Japan continues to decline in its overall contribution to high-quality scientific output. A further fall of 3.7% in 2017 deepens the 19.6% decrease recorded by the Nature Index between 2012 and 2016. Japan's share of the… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches new collection of streaming videos hosted on the SAGE Research Methods platform - March 22, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of a new collection of streaming videos hosted on the SAGE Research Methods (SRM) platform, Practical Research and Academic Skills. Building upon SAGE's extensive history of methods publishing across the wide range of the social and behavioural sciences,… Read More
Remarq now available across journals published by Rockefeller University Press - March 21, 2018
RedLink has announced that Rockefeller University Press (RUP) is the latest publisher to offer Remarq, a tool for the research and education communities offering collaboration, annotation, commenting, article sharing, and editorial tools, all on the publisher's site and utilising the version of record. Remarq launched earlier… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing announces keynote speakers for SSP 40th Annual Meeting - March 21, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its keynote speakers for the SSP 40th Annual Meeting to be held May 30-June 1, in Chicago will be Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble and Steve Mirsky. Noble, an assistant professor at the University… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2018 call for proposals - March 21, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee invite paper and poster proposals for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. This seventh biennial conference will be held in Houston, Texas, December 5-7, 2018, and… Read More
