Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics partner to publish new book series - March 8, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) have announced a partnership to publish a new book series - SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of… Read More
EMBO Molecular Medicine joins Wiley Open Access publishing programme - March 8, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and EMBO have announced that EMBO Molecular Medicine will, as of March 2012, join the Wiley Open Access publishing programme. Articles in the journal will be open access and free to view,… Read More
Turnitin partners with ProQuest to include dissertations from 2008 to the present - March 8, 2012
Turnitin, web-based solution for plagiarism prevention, has partnered with information resources and technologies provider ProQuest to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. With this agreement, Turnitin seeks to enhance its repository of scholarly content… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils social media sentiment analysis service - March 8, 2012
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced an extension of its machine-readable news offering to include a sentiment scoring service for social media. Thomson Reuters News Analytics will mine the expansive wealth of social media and blog content to deliver digestible analytics on selected companies… Read More
SAGE launches new journal – Emerging Adulthood - March 8, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Emerging Adulthood (EA), as the new peer-reviewed flagship journal for the American Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA). The journal will publish studies that advance theory, methodology, and empirical research on the development of 18 to… Read More
London Book Fair to host China Market Focus programme in April event - March 8, 2012
The London Book Fair Market Focus Professional and Cultural Programme, China: New Perspectives, New Concepts, will showcase Chinese publishers and writers at the London Book Fair (LBF) in April. It is claimed to be the largest Market Focus programme of events since LBF launched the Market… Read More