Version One of new STN available in beta for fixed fee customers - December 14, 2012
The STN partners - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe - have announced that Version One of the new STN platform is now available in beta for fixed fee customers. This is stated to be the first major milestone in a… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry acquires The Merck Index - December 14, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that The Merck Index will join the highly acclaimed publishing portfolio of the Society. In buying the rights to the iconic reference book, where generations of professionals look for comprehensive information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals, the RSC… Read More
Thomson Reuters re-launches ScienceWatch.com - December 14, 2012
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the re-launch of ScienceWatch.com, an open, web-based resource dedicated to scientific metrics and research performance analysis. Since 1989, ScienceWatch has provided the scientific community and media professionals with data and commentary on the people, places and… Read More
The American Physiological Society and The Physiological Society partner with Wiley to launch new OA journal - December 14, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., The Physiological Society (TPS) and The American Physiological Society (APS) have announced their partnership to publish the new open access peer-reviewed journal, Physiological Reports, which will launch early next year. Physiological Reports will offer peer-reviewed research across all areas… Read More
Springer set to publish Computational & Applied Mathematics journal - December 14, 2012
STM publisher Springer will publish the research journal Computational & Applied Mathematics, a primary scientific publication of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics (SBMAC), starting in 2013. Published three times a year, the journal will be available electronically on link.springer.com and in print. … Read More
Serials Solutions in deal with five German publishers to index their scholarly content in Summon discovery service - December 14, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that the company is working with several eminent German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service. This German-language content is among the most widely subscribed to by academic institutions in Germany, as well as… Read More