Springer acquires three OA journals from the Max Planck Society - June 25, 2015
STM publisher Springer has acquired the three pioneering 'living' open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity (impact factor 19.25), Living Reviews in Solar Physics (impact factor 17.64) and the recently launched journal Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics from the Max Planck Society. Furthermore, Springer has acquired… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group acquires Maney Publishing - June 25, 2015
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Maney Publishing. Maney's high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly journals in Materials Science and Engineering, the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences. Maney's book series will also be joining Taylor & Francis Group. Taylor & Francis Group is… Read More
Zynx Health and McKesson partner to optimise order set deployment - June 25, 2015
Evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions provider Zynx Health has announced the release of an exclusive integration between ZynxOrder® and Paragon® Hospital Information System release 13 from McKesson that makes order set management easy through automated content synchronization. This intuitive solution eliminates common integration challenges including… Read More
Thieme named official publisher of World Society of Child Science’s pediatric journals - June 25, 2015
Thieme Stuttgart has announced that it is now the official publisher of seven quarterly subscription pediatric journals from the World Society of Child Science. The journals cover a range of areas that are essential reading for the pediatric professional. World Society of Child Science journals… Read More
SAGE, Credo, Gale, and IEEE publically disclose their support for the Open Discovery Initiative - June 24, 2015
In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers - Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE; and SAGE - publically disclosed their support for the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI).… Read More
National consortium for ORCID set to improve UK research visibility and collaboration - June 24, 2015
ORCID, a researcher identifier solution which enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem, will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc. The agreement, negotiated by Jisc Collections, will enable universities to benefit… Read More
Italy to implement ORCID on a national scale, signs three-year consortium membership agreement - June 23, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that Italy will be implementing ORCID on a national scale, and has signed a three-year consortium membership agreement with ORCID. Under the auspices of ANVUR and CRUI (the Conference of Italian University Rectors), 70 universities and… Read More
QS and Elsevier extend cooperation - June 22, 2015
QS, the leading global career and education network, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced that they will extend their cooperation. Elsevier will continue to provide the data as well as offer analytical services for QS's rankings, including its flagship QS World University Rankings®, QS Top 50… Read More
MLA International Bibliography now connects to ORCID - June 22, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that the Modern Language Association's prestigious MLA International Bibliography connects to ORCID as of June 17. The Bibliography joins other repositories in supporting discoverability through use of digital identifiers, and is the first primarily focused on the… Read More
NISTEP collaborates with Thomson Reuters to standardise titles of research funders in Web of Science - June 19, 2015
The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters have announced a collaboration to standardise definitions of research funding organisations… Read More
