Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 18, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Validation vs. Filtration and Designation — Are We Mismarketing the Core Strengths of Peer Review?); Curt Rice (Science research: three problems that point to a communications crisis); David Crotty (Licensing Controversy — Balancing Author Rights with Societal Good);… Read More
ACS Catalysis awarded the AAP’s PROSE Award for ‘Best New Journal in Science, Technology & Medicine’ - February 15, 2013
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that its journal ACS Catalysis has been awarded the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) prestigious PROSE Award for "Best New Journal in Science, Technology & Medicine." Launched in January 2011, the journal has already had a tremendous impact on… Read More
Thieme launches Thieme eNeurosurgery, an online resource for the neurosurgical community - February 15, 2013
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the launch of Thieme eNeurosurgery, an online resource that gives the global neurosurgical community unprecedented access to Thieme's entire neurosurgery collection. Thieme eNeurosurgery enables users to search for procedures they want to brush… Read More
Microbial Cell Factories invites submissions to new thematic series on Systems biotechnology and metabolic engineering - February 15, 2013
Microbial Cell Factories, an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central, has called for submissions to a special thematic series on Systems biotechnology and metabolic engineering, edited by Sang Yup Lee. The series will focus on systems approaches to microbial biotechnology, spanning up-stream… Read More
Woodhead Publishing shortlisted for Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year Award at the 2013 IPG Independent Publishing Awards - February 15, 2013
Scientific and technical publisher Woodhead Publishing Limited, UK, has been announced as a contender for the Frankfurt Book Fair Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year award at this year's Independent Publishing Awards. The judging panel listed Woodhead's consistently strong sales and incomparable knowledge of… Read More
Creative Commons License to apply to all OA content published by De Gruyter - February 15, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, and Versita will be publishing all Open Access content under the uniform application of Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, effective immediately. This means that publications may now be copied, disseminated, and otherwise made public by users under the conditions that the… Read More
