Springer Nature acquires Stuttgart-based publishing house J.B. Metzler, expands humanities portfolio - August 3, 2015
Springer Nature and the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group have agreed that, effective immediately, the Stuttgart-based publishing house J.B. Metzler will become part of Springer Nature. The acquisition follows the recent combination of the majority of Macmillan Science and Education (owned by the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) with Springer… Read More
Wiley announces strong performance in 2015 Journal Citation Reports release - August 3, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a strong performance in Thomson Reuters® 2015 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) release. A total of 1,200 Wiley titles (approximately 70%) were indexed, with 11 titles indexed for the first time. Over 73% of society titles at Wiley achieved… Read More
Jisc works with universities and researchers to reap benefits offered from OA practice - August 3, 2015
Jisc is working to help universities and researchers reap the benefits offered from OA practice in response to the recent OA policy review by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the release of the Higher Education and Funding Council's (HEFCE) updated requirements for next year's Research Excellence… Read More
ACMG announces increase in impact factor of its medical genetics and genomics journal, Genetics in Medicine - August 3, 2015
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) has announced an increase in the impact factor of its peer-reviewed medical genetics and genomics journal, Genetics in Medicine (GIM) to 7.329 in 2014, up from 6.435 in 2013. GIM is currently ranked 15 of 167… Read More
Lynn Silipigni Connaway elected President-elect of ASIS&T - August 3, 2015
OCLC Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway has been elected President-elect of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the 2016 administrative year, and President for 2017. Connaway has been a member of ASIS&T for 25 years. She has served in a variety… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 3, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (A Single User Account); Dr. Randy Paterson (Should Physicians Read Journals? Given Current Standards, Maybe Not); Jane Tinkler (Rather than narrow our definition of impact, we should use metrics to explore richness and diversity of outcomes); Alice… Read More
