Brill to publish two new journals in 2008 - December 19, 2007
Academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, has announced the forthcoming launch of two new journals - Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews and International Journal of Myriapodology - in 2008. Both the journals will accept submissions shortly via the Editorial Manager online submission and refereeing system. Terrestrial… Read More
AAAS names new Editor-in-Chief for Science - December 19, 2007
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named Bruce Alberts, president emeritus of the US National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council (1993-2005), as editor-in-chief of its journal Science, effective March 1, 2008. Alberts will be the 18th editor-in-chief… Read More
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Scopus to launch online tool to search documents belonging to specific organisations - December 18, 2007
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the January launch of its online literature research tool, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1. The new tool is projected to speed up the search process by enabling users to find all the… Read More
The Merck Index now available via Knovel’s online technical reference collection - December 18, 2007
Web-based information services provider Knovel, US, and medical and scientific information provider Merck Publishing, US, have announced the integration of The Merck Index into Knovel's online reference collection. The addition of The Merck Index will provide Knovel subscribers with a key source of precise, comprehensive information… Read More
LANL Research Library joins OA consortium for particle physics publishing - December 18, 2007
The LANL Research Library has joined several libraries in the US and internationally in expressing support for the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). SCOAP3 seeks to make articles in selected high energy physics (HEP) journals free to read for everyone. It… Read More
