Elsevier announces 2012 Journal Impact Factor highlights - July 17, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2012. According to the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 53 percent of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2011 to 2012. Furthermore, 17 percent of… Read More
SAGE reports strong performance in 2012 Journal Citation Reports - July 17, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE reported strong performance across its journals portfolio in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2013), with an increase of 30 indexed titles on prior year to 461 across both the Social Science (SSCI) and Science (SCI) Citation Indexes. Over the last… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces Impact Factor gains across its LWW journal portfolio and Medknow OA titles - July 16, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced impact factor gains across its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio and Medknow open access titles with the release of the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2012 Journal Citation Reports®… Read More
LexisNexis merges MEDai into healthcare business - July 16, 2013
LexisNexis Risk Solutions recently completed an agreement with its sister company Elsevier to transfer MEDai, its clinical-analytics-focused business unit, to the LexisNexis healthcare business. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Elsevier are both part of Reed Elsevier Group plc. The combined organisation will allow LexisNexis to offer… Read More
Elsevier to provide 25 ROSATOM affiliated research institutes with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - July 16, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has extended its collaboration with Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) by providing 25 research institutes with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus as part of its Knowledge Management Program. Launched in 2011, ROSATOM's Knowledge Management Program offers its researchers an infrastructure to… Read More
EBSCO augments multilingual search functionality, enhances Arabic content search - July 16, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that it has improved upon its already superior platforms for Middle Eastern Studies. By enhancing multilingual content search technology, EBSCO will make the Arabic-language content in EBSCOhost databases and EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) more discoverable. EBSCO… Read More