Holiday Notice - November 21, 2012
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 22 and 23, 2012, on account of the 'Thanksgiving Day' holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, November 26, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the… Read More
Elsevier and University of Surrey sign three-year agreement for SciVal Strata - November 21, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the University of Surrey, UK, have signed a three-year agreement for access to Elsevier's research performance benchmarking tool SciVal Strata. The University of Surrey is one of the few universities in the UK with a dedicated bibliometrician as part of its… Read More
Thomson Reuters hosts inaugural Techstreet Standards Publishers Innovation Forum - November 21, 2012
Leaders from the standards publishing industry convened November 9th in Alexandria, Virginia, for the inaugural Standards Publishers Innovation Forum (SPIF), presented by Techstreet, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Representatives from ASTM International, American Petroleum Institute, IEEE Standards Association and elsewhere… Read More
NPG and Mexico’s CONRICYT sign new agreement to provide researchers and students with access to Nature - November 21, 2012
Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has signed an agreement with Mexico's National Trust of Scientific and Technological Information Resources (CONRICYT), which provides researchers and students across the country site license access to Nature. The agreement will provide access to the weekly, international, interdisciplinary journal of science… Read More
Experts examine complex issues, explain OA at Open Access Africa - November 21, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central had organised the third Open Access Africa conference at the University of Cape Town (UCT) last week. This was followed by the Berlin10 open access meeting at the University of Stellenbosch. Jonathan Harle of the Association of Commonwealth Universities has… Read More
WK Health and International Association of Forensic Nurses announce publishing partnership - November 21, 2012
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, and the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) have announced an agreement to publish Journal of Forensic Nursing. The journal is the official journal of IAFN. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, will… Read More
