antibodies-online.com to sponsor BioMed Central’s overall Research Award - April 18, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced antibodies-online.com as the overall BioMed Central Research Award Sponsor for the 7th Annual Research Awards. This prestigious award celebrates the very best in open access research across all disciplines published in BioMed Central's 250 journals for 2012. … Read More
Elsevier and O’Reilly Media announce ebook distribution deal - April 17, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and technology publisher O'Reilly Media have announced that O'Reilly will distribute many of Elsevier's academic, research-focused ebooks. This expands the depth of ebooks available from O'Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking and includes leading imprints… Read More
Thomson Reuters posts sessions from conference on impact of US govt. R&D programme - April 17, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has posted the sessions from its recent industry conference, 'Understanding Federal R&D Impact through Research Assessment and Program Evaluation,' which took place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The conference reportedly explored the impact of… Read More
Publishers’ online communities to double by 2015, says Bowker study - April 17, 2013
Publishing Technology, a publishing-specific software solutions provider, and Bowker Market Research have released the findings of the first US and UK research into the growth of academic and trade publishing online communities. The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and ePals partner to expand global collaborative learning opportunities for K-12 students - April 17, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has formed a collaboration with ePals Corporation, an education media company and a leading global learning network. The partnership pairs world-class content from McGraw-Hill Networks, McGraw-Hill Education's award-winning digital social studies learning program for Grades 6-12,… Read More
SPARC releases new community resource on Article-Level Metrics - April 17, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics - A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. ALMs are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual… Read More
