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IOS Press announces continuous growth of Impact Factors -

Academic publisher IOS Press has announced that its journal Impact Factors continue to increase, according to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) released by Thomson Reuters 2014. Thirty IOS Press journals are currently included in the JCR, with 50 percent of titles showing an increase.… Read More

The LIBISnet Library Network in Belgium goes live with Ex Libris Alma -

Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Ex Libris Alma is live at the LIBIS library network of 33 independent member organisations which includes the historic KU Leuven and its Association, as well as archives, museums, parliaments, and other specialised libraries. An Alma… Read More

UK research secures new national data centre -

Research in the UK has been given a boost this week as specialist data centre provider, Infinity, secured a five year framework agreement with Janet, the UK's national research and education network, provided by Jisc. The deal sees the creation of a Jisc data centre… Read More

DataSalon launches free dataset of academic & research organisations -

Customer insight solutions provider DataSalon has announced the launch of OrgRef, an open dataset of academic & research organisations which is free for anyone to use, and available to download now from the OrgRef website. OrgRef extracts structured information about organisations from Wikipedia and other… Read More

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Selects Silverchair for ARVO Journals -

Silverchair Information Systems has announced that the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected Silverchair to relaunch its three peer-reviewed journals, Journal of Vision (JOV), Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), and Translational Vision Science & Technology (TVST) on… Read More

Simba Information releases Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017 -

A global campaign by scientists, librarians, research funders and universities to increase open access (OA) to scientific research has created a fast growing revenue stream for scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal publishers — this according to Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017, the most recent report from media and publishing… Read More


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