Semantico Strategy Director Rob Virkar-Yates to chair ALPSP seminar - November 16, 2012
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced that it is working with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), an international association for scholarly and professional publishers, on a seminar, entitled 'Ignore your authors at your peril. Strategies and tactics for building… Read More
New streaming video resource for dentistry and oral health education now available from Alexander Street Press - November 16, 2012
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced that Dental Education in Video, a new streaming video resource for dentistry and oral health education, is now available for instant online access. The first release of this collection contains more than 170 high-resolution videos - including… Read More
IOP Publishing continues its support for the MathJax project - November 16, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) continues to support the MathJax project as a MathJax Supporter, demonstrating its commitment to partnering with the scientific community. MathJax was first implemented on IOP Publishing's journals platform IOPscience in September 2011, enabling researchers to clearly view mathematics on… Read More
ORCID and CrossRef collaborate to solve ambiguous author names problem in scholarly content - November 15, 2012
Two not-for profit organisations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October. As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef… Read More
Elsevier launches Postdoc Free Access Program, a new initiative designed to help early career researchers - November 15, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the Postdoc Free Access Program, a new initiative designed to help early career researchers who are in between research positions stay up-to-date in their field. For scholars who have recently received their PhD and currently do… Read More
Research4Life partners extend partnership through 2020 - November 15, 2012
The Research4Life partners have announced that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Research4Life currently provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world's leading scientific,… Read More
