EDP Sciences issues findings from working group on peer review - June 22, 2015
EDP Sciences, a not-for-profit publisher, recently released information on the findings and recommendations of a working group into the peer review process. The meeting involved a committee of experts linked to the European Physical Journal (EPJ) including Editors-in-Chief, Associate-Editors, members of the Steering Committee and researchers… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry titles post impressive Impact Factors - June 22, 2015
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its journals portfolio has performed well across the board with Chemical Science, Chemical Society Reviews and Energy and Environmental Science seeing substantial rises in their Impact Factors. Energy and Environmental Science, which launched in 2008, performed strongly… Read More
PLOS appoints Veronique Kiermer as Executive Editor for PLOS journals - June 22, 2015
PLOS has announced that Dr. Veronique Kiermer has been appointed as Executive Editor. Kiermer will be responsible for the editorial and content direction and vision for PLOS' journals. Her appointment is effective July 20, 2015. Prior to joining PLOS, Kiermer was Director of Author and… Read More
MLA International Bibliography now connects to ORCID - June 22, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that the Modern Language Association's prestigious MLA International Bibliography connects to ORCID as of June 17. The Bibliography joins other repositories in supporting discoverability through use of digital identifiers, and is the first primarily focused on the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 22, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer Review); Suzanne Kavanagh (The institution as e-textbook publisher); Jacob Schmidt (Peer-review journals monopolize research, hurt students and faculty); Emma-Louise Aveling and Graham Martin (First among equals? Recommendations and guidelines for deciding who… Read More
NISTEP collaborates with Thomson Reuters to standardise titles of research funders in Web of Science - June 19, 2015
The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters have announced a collaboration to standardise definitions of research funding organisations… Read More
