PLOS ONE witnesses 25 percent fall in submissions - June 9, 2014
The number of papers published by one of the world's largest open-access journal, PLOS ONE, has plunged over the past few months after rising fairly steadily for years, notes Phil Davis, a scholarly publishing blogger. According to Davis, PLOS ONE may have become a less attractive… Read More
Reed Business Information acquires agricultural software and workflow solutions business, Farmade - June 9, 2014
Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Elsevier, recently announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of agricultural software and workflow solutions business Farmade. Farmade will join RBI's agricultural information, software and marketing solutions business, Farmers Weekly Group. Farmade provides widely… Read More
Co-Action Publishing launches European Clinical Respiratory Journal in cooperation with Nordic Respiratory Academy - June 9, 2014
Open access scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced the launch of European Clinical Respiratory Journal (ECRJ), in cooperation with the Nordic Respiratory Academy (NORA), including the Swedish Society of Respiratory Medicine, Danish Society of Respiratory Medicine, Norwegian Respiratory Society and Finnish Respiratory Society. European… Read More
New Zealand’s Lincoln University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo - June 9, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Lincoln University has opted for the Ex Libris Alma library management service and the Primo discovery and delivery solution. Deployed in the cloud, Alma and Primo will provide the University's students and academic staff with access… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 9, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Author vs. Author: The Authors Guild and the Authors Alliance Set to Duke It Out?); Diana Laurillard (Big data can transform learning – as long as lecturers take control); Martyn Daniels (Why is eBook Metadata So Hard?); Ross… Read More
Plum Print from Plum Analytics allows research impact to be assessed at a glance - June 6, 2014
Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company, has introduced a new way to visualise research impact. The Plum Print will take the data available in Plum Analytics' product PlumX™ and visually illustrate the impact of a given artifact – an article, presentation, or other… Read More
