EPJ C expands OA publishing scheme - November 21, 2007
The European Physical Journal (EPJ) C, one of the eight journals in the EPJ family, has reportedly converted to no-fee open access (OA) for all its research articles as of November 1, 2007. The journal, for the past year, has been a hybrid OA journal charging… Read More
Change in draft wordings may dissuade WHO from implementing OA policy - November 21, 2007
Revised guidelines by an international committee for the World Health Organisation (WHO) imply that the WHO should 'encourage' open access (OA) to government funded research findings, it has been reported. This is seen to jeopardise efforts to convince the WHO that it ought to make OA to such findings mandatory.… Read More
Dr. Janan Hayes joins American Chemical Society’s Board of Directors - November 21, 2007
The American Chemical Society (ACS), US, has announced that Dr. Janan M. Hayes, retired chemist faculty member and administrator at Merced College, Merced Calif, has been elected to the Society's Board of Directors. She will begin a three year term starting January 1, 2008, as director-at-large.… Read More
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Springer set to publish ISEA’s Sports Engineering - November 20, 2007
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has signed an agreement with the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) to publish the latter's journal, Sports Engineering. Previously self-published by the ISEA, Sports Engineering is in its 10th year of publication. Martin Strangwood of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials at… Read More
UT Southwestern’s online lectures now available via JEMSprepare.com - November 20, 2007
E-learning solutions provider MC Strategies, Inc., US, part of Elsevier Health Sciences, has announced that USA Prepare, its emergency preparedness unit, and the Allied Health Sciences School at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will distribute UT Southwestern's online lectures to emergency medical technicians and paramedics… Read More
