Royal Society periodicals to go live on HighWire’s ePublishing platform - February 13, 2008
The Royal Society, the UK's autonomous scientific academy, and Stanford University's HighWire Press recently announced a new partnership to offer the Society's publications online. Under the deal, all content of the Society's eight periodicals, some dating as back as 1665, will be… Read More
Wiley, Elsevier warn authors against e-mail scam - February 13, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have alerted authors against an e-mail spam through their respective websites. An e-mail message, circulated last week, sought manuscript submissions for peer-reviewed journals and claimed to come from Blackwell Publishing. It… Read More
Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care completes first year of publication - February 13, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its journal, Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, has completed its first year of publication. Editors-in-Chief John Licciardone and Roberto Cardarelli, have published an editorial detailing the progress of the journal to date, and looking forwards the future.… Read More
McGraw-Hill’s AccessPharmacy wins ‘Award of Excellence’ from Association of American Publishers - February 13, 2008
AccessPharmacy, an online content solution from McGraw-Hill, has been awarded the 'Award of Excellence' for Best Electronic Publication or Product from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The award was announced at the annual conference of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of… Read More
Dear Subscribers - February 13, 2008
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CED report moots open access to improve healthcare system - February 12, 2008
The Committee for Economic Development (CED), a non-profit, non-partisan think-tank, recently released a report which prescribes openness in medicine, including open-access publishing of research data, as a way for improving the healthcare system. The researchers, led by Eliot Maxwell, look at OA as a transformative lens… Read More
