Healthcare Technology Letters to publish under gold open access model from 2017 - November 3, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that from 2017, its rapid-publication journal Healthcare Technology Letters (HTL) will publish under a gold open access model. The journal will also increase in frequency from 4 issues to 6 issues per year. Launched in 2014,… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and Georgia Tech partner to make elite education more broadly accessible - November 3, 2016
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education and Georgia Tech are teaming up on an innovative approach to make elite education more broadly accessible. Both companies are launching an online, undergraduate course in computer science that will debut this spring for current Tech students… Read More
Ringgold to open access to ISNI Identifiers and data for organisations - November 3, 2016
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, has released a free service to provide open access to the ISNI Identifiers and data for organisations. This includes an API to obtain and resolve existing ISNIs for organisations; a complete dataset download of ISNIs, organization names, locations, alternate names, and… Read More
Springer and BioMed Central to retract 58 articles published across seven journals - November 2, 2016
Springer and BioMed Central are retracting 58 articles published across seven journals this week, after a thorough investigation which revealed evidence of plagiarism, peer review and authorship manipulation, suggestive of attempts to subvert the peer review and publication system to inappropriately obtain… Read More
Two Taylor & Francis ebook platforms now available to order through ProQuest OASIS - November 2, 2016
ProQuest has announced a partnership with publisher group Taylor & Francis to provide libraries with more choices for purchasing ebooks though OASIS. The OASIS system provides end-to-end acquisition workflow support to the market's largest selection of ebooks (more than 1.7 million… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches collection of over 480 videos that illustrate how research is done - November 2, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has launched a collection of streaming videos designed to help students and researchers learn and develop research skillsets and navigate the research process. Titled SAGE Research Method Video, the collection includes 484 videos on the broad spectrum of social science research methods… Read More
