Emerald celebrates 5th annual High Usage awards, highlights global reach and impact of Emerald content - March 2, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has revealed the top 20 global academic institutions with the highest downloads of Emerald eJournal content as part of its 5th annual High Usage awards. The High Usage awards celebrate and recognise the relationship between Emerald and the winning institutions;… Read More
University of California Press joins over 20 HighWire publishers in sales representation partnership with Dragonfly Sales and Marketing - March 2, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., a technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers, and Dragonfly Sales and Marketing have announced the inclusion of the journals of the University of California Press to their worldwide library sales offering. Dragonfly also represents the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group… Read More
Cochrane and Joanna Briggs Institute announce new partnership - March 2, 2016
Cochrane and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a research and development centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, have announced their official partnership aimed at improving the knowledge base for making decisions in healthcare and… Read More
New ICC, SES resources provide guidance for the effective creation and implementation of standards - March 2, 2016
The International Code Council (ICC) is collaborating with SES—The Society for Standards Professionals in the distribution of two key resources designed to assist Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) and others who utilize or are involved in the standards development process. These two publications, ANSI/SES-1:2013, Recommended Practice for… Read More
Elsevier launches new metrics on SciVal to help institutions measure the economic impact of their research - March 1, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of new metrics to help measure the economic impact of research within SciVal, Elsevier's tool to analyze and benchmark the world of research, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of tools and services. The new indicators are… Read More
American Chemical Society names Dr. Gregory Scholes as new deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters - March 1, 2016
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named a new deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a premier physical chemistry journal publishing original scientific advances in physical chemistry, chemical physics and materials science. Dr. Gregory Scholes of Princeton University will officially succeed Dr. Prashant… Read More