IOP Publishing and Astro Ltd announce publishing partnership - July 17, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced a five-year partnership with Astro Ltd to publish two established journals in the field of laser physics - Laser Physics and Laser Physics Letters. As a result of this new deal, IOP will begin… Read More
IOS Press launches new journal – Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging - July 17, 2012
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal- Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging. The journal claims to be the first to integrate the broad areas of spectroscopy and imaging. Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging will seek to provide timely publication of basic and… Read More
First articles go live on F1000 Research - July 17, 2012
Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, has announced the publication of initial articles on F1000 Research, the innovative open access publishing programme in biology and medicine. These articles also feature a novel inline data viewer, and a new method of article citation. … Read More
ACCUCOMS to represent Morgan & Claypool Publishers in France - July 17, 2012
ACCUCOMS, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced that it has selected by Morgan & Claypool Publishers for representation services in France. With its unique focus on local market knowledge and languages, ACCUCOMS will seek to… Read More
European Science Foundation report recommends ‘Science in Society’ initiatives - July 17, 2012
The European Science Foundation (ESF), an independent, non-governmental organisation, has released its report on ‘Science in Society: a Challenging Frontier for Science Policy’ at the ESOF 2012 conference in Dublin. The report, released by ESF’s Member Organisation Forum (MO Forum) on ‘Science in Society Relationships’, calls… Read More
UK set to unveil plans for free access to publicly funded research by 2014 - July 16, 2012
The UK government is reportedly set to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014. Under the scheme, research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universities, companies and individuals to… Read More
