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
SAGE and Campaign for Social Science partner to launch pipeline project - August 4, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing and the Campaign for Social Science have partnered to launch a new research project looking at pathways into different social science disciplines at university and employment prospects for social science graduates. As a result of the data revolution there is a… Read More
California University of Pennsylvania partners with American Meteorological Society to bolster science education - August 4, 2017
California University of Pennsylvania has partnered with the American Meteorological Society to provide graduate level credits tuition-free to K-12 teachers who take AMS Earth sciences education courses. Chad Kauffman, a professor in Cal U's Department of Earth Sciences, has been named… Read More
Elsevier acquires bepress - August 3, 2017
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, has acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions' research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress… Read More
JSTOR expands in the Sciences with Scientific American - August 3, 2017
JSTOR has announced an agreement with Springer Nature to include Scientific American in JSTOR. Scientific American is the authority on science and technology for a general audience, with coverage that explains how research changes our understanding of the world and shapes… Read More
APA collaborates with Center for Open Science to offer preprint services, data repository and open science badges to authors - August 3, 2017
The American Psychological Association, the non-profit publisher of 90 psychology journals, has entered a partnership with the Center for Open Science to offer open science badges to authors, create an APA data repository to ease sharing and designate a preferred preprint server for APA journal articles.… Read More
ACCUCOMS to represent Canadian Science Publishing in the Middle East and North Africa - August 2, 2017
ACCUCOMS and Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) have agreed to expand their collaboration. ACCUCOMS will be representing CSP in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in addition to the current agreement in Latin America from August 1, 2017. As a result… Read More
Society for Integrative Oncology gains access to UBM Medica’s oncology distribution channels - August 1, 2017
UBM Medica, a provider of educational resources to healthcare professionals, has announced a partnership with the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO). Through this partnership, SIO will gain significant reach into the cancer-treating community through UBM Medica's oncology distribution channels – the ONCOLOGY journal and
