BioOne Complete launches on new platform powered by non-profit collaboration with SPIE - January 3, 2019
BioOne, the non-profit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, has launched a new website for its content aggregation, BioOne Complete. Powered by a non-profit collaboration with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, the new site leverages SPIE's… Read More
De Gruyter and ISU University Library sign landmark ‘read and publish’ agreement - January 3, 2019
Academic publisher De Gruyter and the Iowa State University (ISU) University Library have signed a landmark 'read and publish' agreement which represents the first of its kind for De Gruyter in North America. The pilot agreement, which runs for three years beginning with 2019, allows… Read More
MDPI announces new platform – Encyclopedia - January 3, 2019
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced a new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. The platform aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public… Read More
American Journal of Nursing announces 2018 Book of the Year Awards - December 31, 2018
Wolters Kluwer, Health and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) have announced the 2018 winners of its annual AJN Book of the Year Awards honouring exceptional texts for advancing healthcare quality. The list of winners appears in the January 2019 issue of… Read More
Topics related to blockchain and cryptocurrency dominate SSRN scholarly research repository - December 31, 2018
SSRN, a scholarly research repository owned by scientific, technical, and medical information publishing company Elsevier, concludes that FinTech is the fastest growing area of research on its platform. Data from a recently released study by the company reveals that the most popular papers on SSRN deal… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 31, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky (More science than you think is retracted. Even more should be.); Christian Shepherd (British publisher pulls academic journals from China after government complaint); and Elliot Harmon (Europe Speeds Ahead on Open Access: 2018 in Review).… Read More
