NLM offers free access to books and journals for healthcare professionals fighting Ebola outbreak - August 18, 2014
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthcare professionals working on the Ebola public health emergency in West Africa. The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text from… Read More
Nano Today receives record high impact factor - August 18, 2014
Singapore-based Nano Today, a nanoscience and nanotechnology journal published by Elsevier, has received a record high impact factor of 18.432 in 2013, up from 17.689 in 2012, according to the Journal Citation Reports® published by Thomson Reuters last month. The scientific journal… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 18, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ted Bergstrom (Secrets of journal subscription prices: For-profit publishers charge libraries two to three times more than non-profits); David Crotty (In Science, Should the Majority Rule?); Cameron Neylon (The rise and rise of Creative Commons: Over 1.2M CC Licensed Scholarly… Read More
Springer announces new impact factors for its journals - August 15, 2014
Following the release of the Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) for 2013, STM publisher Springer has announced that 26 of its journals have received a first-time impact factor (IF). That brings the total number of Springer journals listed in the report – including many that… Read More
Elsevier launches new Open Access journal – Neurobiology of Stress - August 15, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Neurobiology of Stress. Rita Valentino, Research Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Director of the Division of Stress Neurobiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Yvette Sheline, Professor of Psychiatry… Read More
ISA Transactions reports significant Impact Factor growth - August 15, 2014
The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced that ISA Transactions: The Journal of Automation, dedicated to the science and engineering of measurement and automation, has earned its highest rating ever in a prominent scientific ranking of journal quality and value. The 2014 Thomson Reuters… Read More
