Output of science and engineering publications by the US and China has almost reached parity, reveals NSB Science & Engineering Indicators 2016 - March 21, 2016
The NSB Science & Engineering Indicators 2016 report reveals that authors based in the US were responsible for 18.8% of global scientific output in 2015, while China-based authors accounted for 18.2%. This performance follows over a decade of 'catching-up' by China, which has seen its share… Read More
Symplectic announces new additions to flagship product, Elements - March 21, 2016
Symplectic, a provider of world-leading research information management software and services, has announced a major new addition to its flagship product, Elements. The new module will allow Symplectic's clients to design, share and report on internal & external research assessments, streamlining what were traditionally time-intensive, paper-based… Read More
HighWire Press opens new European office, adding 74 new positions - March 21, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., the publishing technology platform provider for renowned scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that it will open a new office in Belfast, Northern Ireland, adding 74 full time employees over a three-year period. The announcement was made at a meeting with Northern Ireland's… Read More
Routledge appoints Dr. Ajay Manrai as new editor of the Journal of Global Marketing - March 21, 2016
Routledge, a Taylor and Francis Group, has announced the appointment of Dr. Ajay Manrai as the incoming editor of the Journal of Global Marketing beginning in 2016. Dr. Ajay Manrai is a Professor of Marketing in the Department of Business Administration, Lerner College of Business… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 21, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Becky Bach (Open access critical for exchange of research, Stanford professor argues); David Matthews (Should academics be paid for peer review?); Emily Litvack (Open Access Causes Disruption of Status Quo); Kent Anderson (Why Is ClinicalTrials.gov Still Struggling?); Stephen Pinfield (Enabling… Read More
Elsevier publishes ARM edition of Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface - March 18, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has published the ARM edition of its bestseller Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Written by educators David Patterson and John Hennessy, the new edition features a subset of the ARMv8-A architecture presenting the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic,… Read More
