OUP announces January 2015 launch of new OA journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness - December 8, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness, in partnership with the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC). Professor Anil Seth of the University of Sussex will serve as the Editor-in-Chief. Neuroscience… Read More
Credo appoints John Hutchinson as Vice President, Product - December 8, 2014
Information skills solutions provider Credo has announced the appointment of John Hutchinson as Vice President, Product. He brings broad experience to a position where he will advance a product portfolio that helps learners of all types develop the information skills they need to succeed in the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 8, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Peak PLOS: Planning for a Future of Declining Revenue); Publishing Technology (How scholarly libraries are funding and cataloguing OA journals); Joseph Esposito (Workflow without Strategy is a Dead End); Joe Wikert (Unlocking the hidden value of archives); and… Read More
Thomson Reuters powers world’s leading university rankings - December 5, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its collaboration with Times Higher Education to power the latter's BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings. Thomson Reuters InCites data, the world's leading research evaluation platform and home to Global Institutional Profiles, is the benchmarking engine… Read More
AAAS selects CCC’ RightsLink for Open Access platform to streamline entire author fee transaction for Science Advances journal - December 5, 2014
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has chosen the RightsLink for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, to handle Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Science Advances. Science Advances,… Read More
Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer named editor-in-chief of Chemical Reviews - December 5, 2014
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the appointment of Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer as editor-in-chief of Chemical Reviews, effective January 1, 2015. Hammes-Schiffer is Swanlund Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her… Read More