OA policies, author rights discussed at SPARC’s first-ever OA meet - March 19, 2012
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) recently wrapped up a first-ever Open Access (OA) Meeting in Kansas City, Montana. The meeting built on the foundation established by the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting, and its expanded focus included information on institutional OA policies, author rights… Read More
Thomson Reuters recognises Mexican researchers for their contributions to science and innovation - March 19, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters recognised the most highly cited Mexican researchers across 25 universities in the areas of Science and Social Sciences/Arts & Humanities at a recently held award ceremony at the Castillo de Chapultepec. This event is part of the… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and NoveList introduce LibraryAware and the LibraryAware Community award - March 19, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and the creators of the readers’ advisory service, NoveList have introduced LibraryAware, a product that is expected to revolutionise the way libraries promote their programmes and services. LibraryAware will be available during 2012. In addition, NoveList is… Read More
‘Future Medicinal Chemistry’ publishes special focus issues on targeted oncology - March 19, 2012
Future Medicinal Chemistry, a journal published by Future Science Ltd., UK, has published a two-part special focus on ‘Targeted oncology’ guest edited by the journal’s UK Senior Editor, Prof. David Thurston (King’s College London). With many more cancers becoming resistant to current therapies, there is… Read More
Pensoft Publishers launch new open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal - March 19, 2012
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Nature Conservation. The journal joins Pensoft’s family of high technology open-access journals for biodiversity science. Nature Conservation seeks to mobilise ideas and data in all theoretical and applied aspects of… Read More
Oxford University Press named publisher and distributor of the year at UK booksellers’ awards - March 19, 2012
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that it has been named Publisher and Distributor of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony. This is the seventh time in eight years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award, and the… Read More
