Dr. Paul Chirik named new Editor-in-Chief of Organometallics - July 23, 2014
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Paul Chirik will assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of the journal Organometallics. Chirik currently serves as the Edward S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. He will succeed Editor-in-Chief Dr. John Gladysz, who has served in… Read More
The Optical Society unveils new OA journal for highest-impact research in the science of light - July 23, 2014
The Optical Society (OSA) has published the first issue of Optica, its new open-access, online-only journal dedicated to rapidly disseminating the highest-impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics. The journal will join a portfolio of publications published by OSA, whose scientific journals… Read More
GeoScienceWorld launches new ebooks platform on HighWire - July 23, 2014
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) has announced the release of the new GeoScienceWorld eBook Collections on the HighWire Open Platform: ebooks.geoscienceworld.org. The new site is dedicated to the study of the earth sciences, containing books from 10 leading society publishers. The GSW eBook Collections… Read More
John Benjamins launches new e-platform with Publishing Technology - July 23, 2014
Content solutions provider Publishing Technology and John Benjamins Publishing Company have announced the launch of a new online home for the independent Dutch company's diverse range of academic publications. The new jbe-platform.com site, built on the pub2web platform, brings together John… Read More
Reed Business Information announces sale of majority stake in Reed Construction Data - July 22, 2014
Reed Business Information (RBI) has announced the sale of a 51 percent stake in Reed Construction Data (RCD) to Warburg Pincus, and the sale of 100 percent of RSMeans to The Gordian Group, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. RSMeans will separate from RCD and fully… Read More
Springer celebrates open access milestone - July 22, 2014
STM publisher Springer is celebrating the milestone of 200,000 open access articles published to date. The articles, published across BioMed Central, and SpringerOpen are freely available and published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Springer now has 417 open access journals publishing across all areas… Read More
