SAGE acquires Symposium Journals, strengthens education journal portfolio - September 16, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of education journals publisher, Symposium Journals Limited. The sale was announced jointly by Roger Osborn-King of Symposium Journals and Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Global Publishing Director. With a journals publishing career spanning nearly 40 years, Roger founded Symposium Journals… Read More
Thomson Reuters and BMJ Publishing collaborate to optimise peer review process - September 15, 2014
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with British Medical Journals (BMJ), a publisher of healthcare research, to optimise the efficiency of the article peer-review process and solve the industry-wide problem of reviewer fatigue by utilizing ScholarOne Reviewer Locator, an extension… Read More
Retraction Watch and PRE partner to support journals and editors in providing quality content - September 15, 2014
Retraction Watch, launched in 2010 in an effort to increase the transparency of the retraction process among scholarly publication, and PRE (Peer Review Evaluation), which was formed to support publishers in promoting trust and transparency related to peer review, will work together to share information related… Read More
Elsevier and SEEI launch Elsevier-SEEI Center of Academic Research Evaluation - September 12, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute (SEEI) have announced the launch of the Elsevier-SEEI Center of Academic Research Evaluation (CARE). The announcement was made during an opening ceremony held at in Xuhui, Shanghai, within the Centre for Higher Education Development and Assessment.… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health partners with Visible Body to offer 3D anatomy educational solutions - September 12, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced a partnership with Visible Body, producer of an award-winning suite of 3D anatomy education solutions, to distribute their web-based and mobile products via its Ovid medical research platform for institutions globally. Visible Body is an entity of Argosy… Read More
Allen Press and ReadCube partner for discovery of Pinnacle content - September 11, 2014
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with Boston-based publishing technology company ReadCube to enhance content hosted on its Pinnacle online publishing platform. Over 66,000 articles from Allen Press' platform have been indexed by ReadCube's Discover service and enhanced for discoverability… Read More
Figshare and Arkivum announce partnership - September 11, 2014
Figshare, an online repository which enables researchers to securely host, and Arkivum, the provider of large scale, long term, safe digital archiving solutions, have announced a partnership to provide a solution covering the full spectrum of funder-mandated research data requirements for UK… Read More
Researchers can now connect their ORCID identifiers with PlumX profile - September 10, 2014
Researchers can now easily connect with their scholarly activities and contribution while also tracking the metrics from their work by using the combination of Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) and PlumX, from Plum Analytics, an EBSCO company. The integration of the… Read More
CCC to integrate Ringgold Identify database into RightsLink for Open Access - September 10, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has partnered with Ringgold, the authority on institutional identification, to integrate the Ringgold Identify database into CCC's RightsLink for Open Access platform to host and execute institution-specific pricing rules. CCC is Ringgold's first partner… Read More
Max Planck authors can now publish their research in PeerJ at no cost to themselves - September 10, 2014
PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, has announced that the Max Planck Society has signed a publishing plan deal with PeerJ, which entitles any Max Planck author to publish their research in PeerJ at no cost to… Read More
