Doctoral student from University College London bags Roger K. Summit scholarship award - December 12, 2007
Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced Mehrnoush Mozaffarian, a doctoral student from University College, London, as the winner of the 2007 Roger K. Summit Scholarship for the Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa region. The announcement was made during… Read More
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ARL report on journals transition from print to electronic formats - December 11, 2007
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), US, has published a report which examines the issues associated with the migration from dual-format publishing to electronic-only publication of journals. The report, 'The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What's Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone,' by Richard K. Johnson… Read More
NPG to publish genomes using Creative Commons licence - December 11, 2007
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that is introducing a Creative Commons licence for original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism's genome for the first time in any of the Nature journals. The Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence… Read More
BioMed Central to launch new journal – BMC Research Notes - December 11, 2007
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the forthcoming launch of a new journal - BMC Research Notes. The journal is the latest addition to the BMC series, a group of open access, peer-reviewed research-only journals that span most areas of biological and clinical research.… Read More
Nutrition Society signs publishing contract with Cambridge Journals - December 11, 2007
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced that the Nutrition Society has signed a long-term contract to continue its publishing partnership with Cambridge Journals. Four journals of the Society - British Journal of Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition Research Reviews and Proceedings of the… Read More
