VitalSource expands accessibility support for digital educational content - July 10, 2015
VitalSource Technologies Inc., an Ingram Content Group Company and an educational technology company, is showcasing new accessibility features of its VitalSource Bookshelf platform at the National Federation of the Blind National Convention, July 5-10, in Orlando, FL. For more than a decade, VitalSource has provided accessible… Read More
Elsevier unveils seven new food science and safety books at Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT15 conference - July 10, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of seven new food science books, including Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems edited by Steven Ricke, Janet Donaldson and Carol Phillips. In this book, experts in the field discuss recent scientific innovations and complex challenges, to improve… Read More
PeerJ becomes a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Committee Guidelines - July 10, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has expressed its commitment to the principles of transparency in scientific research by becoming a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee Guidelines, a set of author guidelines that journals can adopt to enhance the transparency of the research they… Read More
HighWire Press’ newly launched visual analytics product, Impact Vizor, named finalist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015 - July 10, 2015
HighWire Press, Inc., a technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that its newly launched visual analytics product, Impact Vizor, has been selected as a finalist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015. Impact Vizor was created… Read More
Elsevier and US National Cancer Institute implement reciprocal linking between research articles and datasets - July 9, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI's cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal. The NCI is part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). caNanoLab provides facilities for… Read More
Journals on mathematics education and industrial mathematics join SpringerOpen - July 9, 2015
SpringerOpen is now co-publishing two journals from the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences: Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies and Fields Mathematics Education Journal. Both open access journals' article-processing charges are covered by the Fields Institute, thereby removing all barriers to reading and publication. The Fields… Read More
