Journals from IOP Publishing show Impact Factor growth - July 31, 2014
The 2013 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, once again show growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP). This year, more than half of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last… Read More
F1000Research brings static research figures to life - July 31, 2014
F1000Research has published a new research from Bjorn Brembs, professor of neurogenetics at the Institute of Zoology, Universitaet Regensburg, in Germany, with a proof-of-concept figure allowing readers and reviewers to run the underlying code within the online article. This represents an important leap forward for scientific… Read More
Portland Press Limited announces across-the-board increase in Impact Factors - July 31, 2014
Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has announced an across-the-board increase in Impact Factors for its molecular bioscience publications. The 2013 InCites Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2014) show that Clinical Science, Biochemical Journal, Essays in Biochemistry, Biochemical Society Transactions… Read More
IFLA launches 2014 eLending Background Paper - July 31, 2014
The eLending environment for libraries around the world continues to change at a rapid pace. In 2012, IFLA released its Background Paper on eLending, which formed the basis for the production of the IFLA Principles for Library eLending, the third revision of which was issued at… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center awarded grant from National Endowment for the Humanities - July 31, 2014
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced a new project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH awarded $324,841 for 'Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm' (HT+BW) a two-year project that begins September… Read More
Open access articles have more views and downloads, reveals Nature Communications data - July 30, 2014
An independent statistical analysis of the articles published in Nature Communications, carried out by the Research Information Network (RIN), has found that open access (OA) articles are viewed three times more often than articles that are only available to subscribers. RIN also… Read More
