COAR launches draft ‘Resource Type’ vocabulary for open access repositories - August 4, 2015
Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for describing repository items, such as open access status, research funder, institutional affiliation, and so on. Given the truly… Read More
Dr. Joseph Hill named editor-in-chief of Circulation - August 4, 2015
Dr. Joseph Hill, Chief of UT Southwestern Medical Center's Division of Cardiology and Director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center, has been selected as the forthcoming editor-in-chief for the American Heart Association's principal scientific journal, Circulation. Circulation, published weekly, is the American Heart Association's… Read More
Society for General Microbiology partners with Publishing Technology to launch new publishing platform - August 4, 2015
The Society for General Microbiology, the largest learned microbiological society in Europe, has partnered with Publishing Technology to launch its new publishing platform. Going live with a back catalogue of 55,000 articles, the new digital platform brings together scholarly content from all six of the… Read More
City of Liverpool College joins national data centre for education and research - August 4, 2015
City of Liverpool College has become the first further education (FE) provider to move into the UK's dedicated national shared data centre for education and research. The data centre – which is offered through a framework agreement by digital technologies charity Read More
Annual Outsell STM Market Size and Share Report indicates strong industry performance - August 3, 2015
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced publication of its annual Scientific, Technical & Medical Information: 2015 Marsket Size, Share, Forecast, and Trend Report. Growing at a rate of 3.6% over 2013, the $33.7 billion STM market comprises an impressive 4.4% of the total information… Read More
Elsevier set to publish official journal of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing - August 3, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) have announced that Elsevier will publish NCSBN's flagship journal, Journal of Nursing Regulation. Journal of Nursing Regulation publishes scholarly articles that advance the science of nursing regulation, promote the mission and vision… Read More
