John Wiley & Sons renews over sixty years of partnership with the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society - March 21, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has renewed its relationship with the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) - a partnership which began over sixty years ago. Wiley will continue to support the society's leading research journal Physiologia Plantarum, an international thought leader in the field… Read More
NoveList Select made available through Koha Open Source ILS - March 21, 2013
NoveList, a division of databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that its new ILS integration NoveList Select is now available through Koha Open Source ILS. Patrons of the Los Gatos Library in Los Gatos, Calif., and other libraries who use the Koha open source Integrated… Read More
SPARC release open data resource for research funders - March 21, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new community resource for research funders, titled 'Implementing an Open Data Policy'. This primer addresses key issues that these organisations encounter when considering the adoption and implementation of an open data policy. The guide covers… Read More
OSA launches new web-based submission and manuscript tracking system to streamline journal submissions - March 21, 2013
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the launch of Prism, its new web-based submission and manuscript tracking system for its suite of scholarly journals. When fully implemented, Prism will include customised modules for authors, reviewers and editors and will replace OSA's current system for handling the… Read More
Reprints Desk launches Open Access for its document delivery service - March 21, 2013
Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a new Open Access (OA) filter for the company's document delivery service that is used by research-driven companies and institutions to acquire single copies of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. The OA filter sends customers… Read More
Springer’s interdisciplinary OA journal now indexed in Scopus and PubMed Central - March 20, 2013
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that its interdisciplinary fully open access journal, SpringerPlus, is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus. Consequently, authors publishing with SpringerPlus will enjoy maximum exposure of their research work. The journal is part of SpringerOpen, the publisher's portfolio of… Read More
