Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 2, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Naiveté Scene - Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing); Josh Clark (Tools and tips to manage your online reputation); Enrique Orduna-Malea, Alberto Martín-Martín, Mike Thelwall, and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar (The ResearchGate Score rewards academics’ active participation on… Read More
PLOS reaches 200,000 research articles milestone - September 29, 2017
PLOS has announced that it has now published more than 200,000 research articles across its seven Open Access journals. PLOS was incorporated in 2001 as an Open Access advocacy organisation and became a publisher to prove the value of Open Access, beginning with PLOS Biology… Read More
SAGE Publishing and American String Teachers Association partner to publish two journals - September 29, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) to publish the music journals American String Teacher (AST) and String Research Journal (SRJ). Founded in 1946, ASTA is dedicated to helping string and orchestra teachers and players. Its members include K-12 school… Read More
Biomaterials Science to become official journal of European Society for Biomaterials in new partnership - September 29, 2017
The Royal Society of Chemistry has partnered with the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) in a collaboration that will see Biomaterials Science become the official journal of ESB. The agreement is set to come into effect on January 1, 2018. The European Society for Biomaterials… Read More
Editorial Manager Version 14.1 includes updated Author Submission Interface capable of automated metadata extraction - September 29, 2017
Online submission system provider Aries Systems has announced that Editorial Manager, Version 14.1, now in Beta release, includes an updated Author Submission Interface capable of extracting key metadata from Authors' submitted Microsoft Word documents so as to automatically populate key system fields. The new interface simplifies… Read More
Consorcio Madroño chooses Ex Libris Alma and Primo - September 29, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Consorcio Madroño (the Madroño consortium) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and services for the consortium's members. Alma will replace the SirsiDynix… Read More
