UK research secures new national data centre - September 5, 2014
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 - September 5, 2014
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 - September 5, 2014
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 - September 4, 2014
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
Elsevier publishes new chemical engineering content - September 4, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that new chemical engineering content is available. This content includes three new books on industrial distillation and two additional books on flow analysis and water reclamation. These books provide researchers and graduate students with latest knowledge required for those working in… Read More
SAGE acquires Vathek Publishing - September 4, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of legal journal publisher, Vathek Publishing. The sale was announced jointly by Lilli Waterford, founder of Vathek Publishing and Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Global Publishing Director. Vathek Publishing, incorporated in the Isle of Man in 2000 by Lilli Waterford,… Read More
