Serials Solutions unveils Spotlighting service for dynamic display options - January 25, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has introduced a new feature in its Summon discovery service, named Summon Spotlighting, which provides dynamic display options for specialised content types. Image Spotlighting is said to dramatically improve the discoverability of libraries' most unique and valued collections. Libraries are expected… Read More
SAGE Open author publication fee discounted to $99 per article - January 25, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the price of publication in SAGE Open has been discounted to $99 per article. SAGE Open, launched in May 2011, was the world's first broad-based gold open access journal for the social sciences and humanities. With this move, the publisher… Read More
AIP and IOP Publishing create new thesaurus for astronomy community - January 25, 2013
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing, a non-profit scientific publisher, have jointly announced the creation of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) for the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The UAT is expected to help improve future information discovery for… Read More
BMJ Learning and BMJ Quality launch new learning tools for 2013 - January 25, 2013
Medical publisher the BMJ Group, UK, has announced that BMJ Learning and BMJ Quality are launching new tools to add to the support and learning it already offers to doctors and other healthcare professionals worldwide. The end of 2012 saw the introduction of revalidation for… Read More
Informa to publish Chinese Medical Record: English Edition - January 25, 2013
Medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare has announced a new partnership with the Chinese Medical Record Association (part of the Chinese Hospital Association under the authority of the Ministry of Health) for the publication of Chinese Medical Record: English Edition. This marks an important step… Read More
The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to publish open access books - January 25, 2013
Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working… Read More
