Dr. Antonio Ceriello named Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice journal - July 1, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) have announced the appointment of Professor Antonio Ceriello as the new Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (DRCP), the official journal of IDF, published by Elsevier. For more than 25 years, DRCP has been an… Read More
SAGE Publishing and the Chinese Academy of Science sign agreement for all gold OA journals to be available on the GoOA platform - July 1, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has signed an agreement with the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) to make all their gold Open Access (OA) journals available on CAS's GoOA platform to support access to research in the country. Funded by CAS, and… Read More
Wolters Kluwer announces Impact Factor gains across Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journal portfolio - July 1, 2016
Wolters Kluwer has announced Impact Factor gains across its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio. The latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings are based on the 2015 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters). For LWW's 208 titles listed in the JCR Rankings, 46%… Read More
Brill launches new journal – Philological Encounters - July 1, 2016
International publisher Brill has announced the launch of a new journal in 2016, Philological Encounters, in collaboration with the research program Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship (Forum Transregionale Studien/Freie Universität Berlin). Brill adds the peer-reviewed journal to its growing publishing portfolio in Philology,… Read More
Holiday Notice - July 1, 2016
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 4, 2016 on account of US Independence Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, July 5, 2016. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 1st issue.… Read More
UK wide survey cites the growing importance of online libraries to academics - June 30, 2016
The 2015 survey of academics, jointly commissioned by Jisc and RLUK and conducted by research organisation Ithaka S+R, has revealed a substantial increase in the way academics use and value online libraries. According to the report, 88% of researchers now see their… Read More
