Academic and government institutes in Spain gain access to Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus database - March 15, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has selected its SciVerse Scopus database to assist academic and government institutes throughout Spain in the tracking and analysing of research. FECYT is a public foundation that supports the Spanish Ministry… Read More
Journal of Nanobiotechnology accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters - March 11, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the Journal of Nanobiotechnology has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for Impact Factor tracking. The journal is now tracked from Volume 9 (2011) and the high quality of the content is reflected by a predicted Impact Factor… Read More
Semantico deploys Shibboleth 2 compliance for Koninklijke Brill - January 27, 2011
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd, UK, has implemented Shibboleth 2 compliance for academic publisher Koninklijke Brill. Compliance with the latest Shibboleth release covers Brill Online, Brill Linguistic Bibliographies, Brill Nijhoff and Brill eBooks. Alongside the upgrade, Koninklijke Brill has extended Shibboleth coverage across Europe.… Read More
Two-thirds of Wiley-Blackwell’s journal portfolio now has an Impact Factor - November 22, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that two thirds of its journals (68.8% and 1,013 titles) have an Impact Factor, according to the revised Thomson ISI 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Of these ranked titles, nearly a… Read More
Cell Division accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters - November 12, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Cell Division has been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters. The journal will get its first official Impact Factor in June 2011. Launched in 2006, Cell Division publishes high quality research on all aspects of… Read More
More than one hundred BioMed Central journals now indexed by Thomson Reuters - October 21, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that another three of its journals have been accepted and are well on their way to receive their first Impact Factors in June 2011. The journals are: BMC Ophthalmology, Cell Division and Epigenetics & Chromatin. These journals have… Read More
Conference of Italian University Rectors selects Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge for 72 member universities - October 11, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) has selected Web of Knowledge for 72 of its member universities. Under the agreement, CRUI has renewed its current subscription for 60 universities for another four years. Also, it has… Read More
ACM journals experience increased coverage by Thomas Reuters ISI Web of Science - August 23, 2010
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that the January 2009 mid-year release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) showed a significant increase in the coverage of ACM periodicals and publication of impact factors for 2009. In total, 29 ACM periodicals are now listed in JCR,… Read More
Springer’s Chinese Library of Science makes up almost half the SCI-listed titles - August 10, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced that with the adoption of the journal Frontiers in Physics into the Science Citation Index (SCI), a total of 45 journals from Springer's Chinese Library of Science are now listed in the Thomson Reuters index. With this new addition, almost half… Read More
Elsevier announces 2009 Journal Impact Factor highlights - July 8, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2009. Elsevier saw over 65 percent of its journal Impact Factors (IFs) increase from 2008 to 2009. According to the 2009 Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier journals took… Read More
