IOP Publishing and UK university libraries collaborate on open access offsetting pilot - May 28, 2014
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced the launch of a three-year pilot project under which participating universities will be able to offset the majority of their expenditure on hybrid article publication charges (APCs) in IOP journals against their subscription and licence fees. … Read More
Bell Labs integrates Bell Labs Technical Journal into IEEE Xplore Digital Library - May 28, 2014
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced a partnership with Bell Labs, the global research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, to host the Bell Labs Technical Journal (BLTJ) in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The BLTJ is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote progress in communications worldwide and… Read More
Technion collaborates with World Scientific on e-book access - May 28, 2014
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and World Scientific Publishing have come to an agreement to provide Technion students and faculty with a massive database of e-book content spanning all areas of World Scientific's publishing programme. As of May 2014, content from… Read More
Society for General Microbiology selects Publishing Technology to build new journals portal - May 28, 2014
Content solutions provider Publishing Technology has announced that it welcomes the Society for General Microbiology (SGM), the learned microbiological society in Europe, to its digital hosting platform pub2web. The new digital hub will bring together all of SGM's content in one… Read More
Scope launches SemantiCzTM, a content enrichment solution for better discovery - May 27, 2014
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the launch of its content enrichment solution SemantiCz™. Combined with the foundational building blocks of abstracts from the ConSCIse™ platform and ontology from the diSCOver™ platform, SemantiCz will… Read More
Elsevier and the African Academy of Sciences work together to support researchers through publishing training programme - May 27, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it is working together with the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), an Africa-wide scientific organisation that aims to encourage the development of research and technology throughout Africa, on a joint initiative to support African researchers' drive for quality research output.… Read More
