Hindawi and Max Planck Digital Library sign framework agreement - August 15, 2017
Hindawi has announced the signing of a new framework agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). Under the deal, all Hindawi Article Processing Charges for authors at Max Planck research institutes will be covered centrally by the MPDL, making the process of publishing in Hindawi’s… Read More
Emerald among first to join NISO Open Discovery Initiative - August 11, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has become one of the first academic publishers to release a set of checklists detailing what it is doing to make the content it publishes easier to find. The NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) checklist helps publishers convey, in a standard… Read More
ACCUCOMS to represent The Alliance of Crop, Soil & Environmental Science Societies in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - August 11, 2017
The Alliance of Crop, Soil & Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS) will start working with ACCUCOMS to bring their content to the growing academic market in the Indian sub-continent. ACSESS is the umbrella organisation for three non-profit societies: American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of… Read More
Elsevier announces exclusive agreement with the Visiting Nurse Associations of America for online clinical skills for home healthcare clinicians - August 10, 2017
Elsevier, an information and analytics business, has entered an exclusive agreement with the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) to develop Hospice Skills and more than 400 home healthcare skills from the VNAA's award-winning Clinical Procedures Manual. The partnership will deliver VNAA content to the… Read More
Kinokuniya Company named exclusive sales representative for SPIE Journals in Japan - August 10, 2017
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced an agreement establishing Kinokuniya Company Ltd. as its exclusive sales representative for SPIE Journals in Japan. Kinokuniya has a longstanding relationship with SPIE as the exclusive sales representative for the SPIE Digital Library in Japan. … Read More
SLA Europe to be London Info International 2017 Association partner - August 9, 2017
London Info International has announced SLA Europe as an Association partner. SLA Europe will have a stand in the exhibition and all current members will be entitled to special discounts to attend the two-day conference. SLA Europe is a thriving network of information professionals who come… Read More
Elsevier and AMA collaborate on outpatient coding eLearning courses - August 9, 2017
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the American Medical Association (AMA) have announced that they will co-develop eLearning course content for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®), the most widely accepted nomenclature in the U.S. to report outpatient… Read More
Neuroscience Bulletin commits to requiring ORCID iDs from authors - August 9, 2017
The Neuroscience Bulletin recently signed the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Open Letter committing to requiring ORCID iDs from authors. The international scholarly identifiers will be collected during submission using ScholarOne Manuscripts, enhancing the authors' publishing experience. It is the first China-based journal to sign… Read More
eLife joins Substance Consortium; supports development of open-source online content-editing tools - August 8, 2017
eLife recently joined a consortium of organisations committed to supporting Substance, a JavaScript library of tools for web-based content editing. As an open-source project first started in 2010, Substance provides the building blocks for realising custom text editors and web-based publishing systems that are critical… Read More
Zynx Health announces strategic partnership with Hexaware to provide evidence-based clinical content - August 7, 2017
Zynx HealthTM, a market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Hexaware, the fastest growing automation-led, next-generation provider of IT, BPO, and consulting services. Under the terms of the agreement, Zynx will deliver evidence-based content through an API… Read More
