New study reveals characteristics of the ‘predatory’ scholarly publishing market - October 2, 2015
A study conducted by researchers from Hanken School of Economics and published in the open access journal BMC Medicine sheds new light on the volume and market characteristics of so-called ‘predatory’ scholarly journal publishing. The study shows the number of articles published in journals defined as such that have increased… Read More
Elsevier launches new module in PharmaPendium - October 2, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new module in PharmaPendium, its fully searchable database of drug approval documents and extracted data to inform critical drug development decisions. The PharmaPendium Efficacy Module features over 1.4 million extracted efficacy observations from FDA and EMA drug… Read More
Wiley announces retirement of Chairman Peter Booth Wiley - October 2, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that its Board of Directors has elected Matthew S. Kissner to succeed Peter Booth Wiley as Chairman of the Board. Wiley was elected to another term as Director. Wiley, who joined the Board in 1984 and succeeded his… Read More
Overleaf and IEEE collaborate to integrate advanced online editing tools into IEEE Collabratec - October 2, 2015
Overleaf, an academic authorship tool, has announced that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has integrated the Overleaf online LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing tool into IEEE Collabratec™, the new IEEE professional networking and collaboration platform. IEEE, a global organisation… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Publons partner to give credit to peer reviewers - October 2, 2015
Publons, the world’s leading peer review recognition platform, and Cambridge University Press have entered into a partnership to give credit to peer reviewers for four Cambridge journals. Peer reviewers at participating Cambridge journals now have the option to automatically receive recognition for their peer review contributions… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing acquires three journals from the Agricultural Institute of Canada - October 2, 2015
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), an independent, not-for-profit scholarly publisher, and the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), a not-for-profit institute dedicated to broadening society’s knowledge and use of science and agriculture, have reached an agreement for CSP to acquire three journals: the Canadian Journal of Animal Science… Read More
