Kudos raises £2.2M to launch new communications management system for researchers - November 30, 2018
Kudos, the award-winning service for maximising the reach and impact of research, will develop and launch a new communications management system for researchers, after securing £2.2m investment. The global research sector is undergoing significant and accelerating change, with mechanisms for evaluation, publication and reward being… Read More
Chemistry Central Journal to be renamed as BMC Chemistry, will join the BMC series as its first chemistry title - November 29, 2018
Chemistry Central Journal, a journal that has served the chemistry community as a trusted resource for more than a decade, will be renamed to BMC Chemistry in January 2019. The journal will join the BMC series as its first chemistry title. Chemistry Central Journal launched… Read More
IOP Publishing expands journal portfolio with three new journals - November 29, 2018
IOP Publishing, the publishing company of the Institute of Physics, has announced that the first content has been published in three new additions to its journal portfolio - Electronic Structure, JPhys Energy and Plasma Research Express. The three journals were launched to cater to the needs… Read More
Annex Publishers to preserve OA e-journals with Portico - November 29, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that Annex Publishers, an interactive open access journal publisher for the communication of all scientific and medical research, will be preserving its open access e-journals with Portico. With this move, the publisher seeks to ensure that their content will be… Read More
MDPI’s Plants and Foods accepted for inclusion in SCIE - November 29, 2018
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced that two of its journals, Plants and Foods, have been accepted for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in the Web of Science Core Collection, as well as Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology &… Read More
OCLC awarded IMLS funds to expand its National Leadership Grant project - November 29, 2018
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC has received a $249,710 award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to expand its National Leadership Grant project, Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces, to more small and rural public libraries across the US. … Read More
