Bowker to Include ISNI in ONIX 2.1 data feeds - December 3, 2014
ProQuest affiliate Bowker will now include the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in its ONIX 2.1 data feeds to retailers such as Barnes & Noble, as well as the major search engines, ensuring that authors are accurately identified in search and… Read More
Chinese Diabetes Society selects Wiley journal Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews as official scientific journal - December 3, 2014
Publisher Wiley has announced that the Chinese Diabetes Society (CDS) has selected the Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews (DMMR) as its official scientific journal, marking a significant milestone for both parties. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in early November at CDS'… Read More
Collaborative agreement among Gale and three universities in British Columbia provides provincial-wide access to research materials - December 2, 2014
British Columbia's 4.6 million residents now have free perpetual access to leading Gale research databases – nearly 200 million pages of digital historical content – as part of a unique agreement arranged by the University of Victoria Libraries, University of British Columbia Library, and Simon Fraser… Read More
Frontiers offers new Impact Metrics and access to Altmetric data - December 1, 2014
Frontiers, a community-rooted open-access publisher, has announced the release of an expanded suite of Impact Metrics and fully integrated Altmetric data. Authors and readers can track and analyze online activity around Frontiers articles, including news, references in policy documents, social media, bookmarking, post-publication peer review and… Read More
IET and key publishers create draft recommendations to improve conference content quality - December 1, 2014
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), together with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and STM publisher Elsevier, has created draft recommendations for conference content. These recommendations are designed to uphold the quality of published research presented at scientific meetings and conferences.… Read More
Taylor & Francis adopts DataSalon’s MasterVision service for customer reporting - November 26, 2014
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has adopted DataSalon's MasterVision service to provide subscription and usage reporting for their journals customer base. MasterVision combines over 60 million rows of data from different databases into a single user-friendly interface - providing detailed customer insight.… Read More
Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea announce new initiative to integrate content within Korean Citation Index into Web of Science - November 25, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), have announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region's scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the… Read More
Oxford University Press and Emerge Education partner to support educational start-ups - November 24, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced a partnership with Emerge Education; confirming its commitment to supporting education technology (ed-tech) start-ups. The Emerge Education accelerator programme aims to improve educational outcomes worldwide by supporting innovative solutions and ideas from educational start-up companies. It offers… Read More
Springer and Association of Dutch Universities reach wide-ranging agreement on access - November 21, 2014
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media and the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU) have reached a landmark agreement which includes access to more than 2,000 of Springer's subscription journals as well as a commitment to rapidly moving toward open access publishing for all publicly financed research results… Read More
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine to join Cambridge Journals list from January 2015 - November 21, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) have announced that the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM) will join the Cambridge Journals list from January 2015. CJEM is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, produced specifically for… Read More
