Elsevier announces availability of two new Reference Modules – Reference Modules in Life Sciences and Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology - November 3, 2016
STM Publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of its two new Reference Modules, Reference Module in Life Sciences and Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Each provides researchers, clinicians, educators and students access to reference content updated as science progresses. The new Reference Modules are… Read More
Crossref now accepts preprints - November 3, 2016
Crossref, the not-for-profit member organisation for publishers, has announced that it is now accepting the registration of Crossref DOIs for preprints. The key decision is to acknowledge that preprints are a valuable part of the research story, and ensure that authors' own or institutional repository versions… Read More
Healthcare Technology Letters to publish under gold open access model from 2017 - November 3, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that from 2017, its rapid-publication journal Healthcare Technology Letters (HTL) will publish under a gold open access model. The journal will also increase in frequency from 4 issues to 6 issues per year. Launched in 2014,… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and Georgia Tech partner to make elite education more broadly accessible - November 3, 2016
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education and Georgia Tech are teaming up on an innovative approach to make elite education more broadly accessible. Both companies are launching an online, undergraduate course in computer science that will debut this spring for current Tech students… Read More
Ringgold to open access to ISNI Identifiers and data for organisations - November 3, 2016
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, has released a free service to provide open access to the ISNI Identifiers and data for organisations. This includes an API to obtain and resolve existing ISNIs for organisations; a complete dataset download of ISNIs, organization names, locations, alternate names, and… Read More
Springer and BioMed Central to retract 58 articles published across seven journals - November 2, 2016
Springer and BioMed Central are retracting 58 articles published across seven journals this week, after a thorough investigation which revealed evidence of plagiarism, peer review and authorship manipulation, suggestive of attempts to subvert the peer review and publication system to inappropriately obtain… Read More
