Research4Life launches website - July 7, 2009
Research4Life has announced the launch of www.research4life.org.. The website will act as the public face of the Research4Life partnership for journalists, partners and institutions considering joining one of the programmes. It will include news about the programmes, information on the partners and participating institutions, testimonials and… Read More
338 Wiley-Blackwell journals in top 10 rankings by Impact Factor - July 7, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that 338 of its journals are ranked in the top 10 of their subject categories in the Thomson Reuters 2008 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Impact factors… Read More
CSIRO sells Funnelback search engine to content management company Squiz - July 7, 2009
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has announced the sale of its Funnelback search engine technology company to content management company Squiz. Funnelback was developed by CSIRO and the Australian National University, originally under the name of P@noptic. Funnelback's flagship product, Funnelback Enterprise, is… Read More
Benefits of OA substantially outweigh costs in three European countries, says report - July 6, 2009
Knowledge Exchange, a co-operative effort, has commissioned a study on the costs and benefits of scholarly communication in three countries - Denmark, the UK and the Netherlands. The study titled 'Open Access - What are the economic benefits? A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and… Read More
Research4Life programmes boost research output, says impact analysis - July 6, 2009
The partners of Research4Life announced at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 that a new research impact analysis has demonstrated a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since 2002. Comparing absolute growth in published research before (1996 - 2002) and… Read More
Nature Publishing Group to produce online videos of Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting - July 6, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the Foundation Lindau Nobel prize winners Meetings at Lake Constance have signed an agreement to collaborate in the production of online videos of this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on chemistry. Produced by Nature Video, the videos will… Read More
