New Jisc Report: Changing publishing ecologies – A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing - July 24, 2017
Jisc has released a new report - Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing. The report, by Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University) and Graham Stone (Jisc, formerly Collections and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Huddersfield), benchmarks the development of… Read More
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine names Prof Peter Wenaweser as Specialty Chief Editor - July 24, 2017
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine has announced Prof. Peter Wenaweser as the Specialty Chief Editor for the new section Structural Interventional Cardiology. The section is open for submissions and welcomes applications to the editorial board. Peter Wenaweser is one of the leading interventional cardiologists focusing on the treatment of coronary… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 24, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Smith (Have We Been Hacked By Sci-Hub?); Casey Pickering (3 Steps to Turn Analytics into Actionable Insights); Roger C. Schonfeld (Defining a New Content Type: The Exploratory Resource); Hyoungjoo Park and Dietmar Wolfram (Formalised data citation practices would encourage… Read More
Elsevier announces publication of Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies - July 21, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, has announced a new major reference work, the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, by Martin Abraham. It is the first multi-volume reference to employ both Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approaches in assessing… Read More
ProQuest Academic Complete expands access to Wiley content - July 21, 2017
The ProQuest Academic Complete ebook subscription database has expanded access to premier ebooks from Wiley. Under a new five-year agreement, Wiley will make an additional 4,000 ebooks available via Academic Complete and its 10 single-subject subscriptions. Wiley and ProQuest have long partnered to offer researchers unlimited,… Read More
Taylor & Francis announces publishing agreement with National Recreation and Park Association - July 21, 2017
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced a publishing agreement with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA). With this agreement, Taylor & Francis will publish and distribute NRPA's Journal of Leisure Research (JLR) and SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies & Recreation Education, under its… Read More
