ACC testifies before Senate HELP Committee on impacts of health information blocking - July 24, 2015
American College of Cardiology Informatics and Health Information Technology Task Force member Dr. Michael J. Mirro has released a statement regarding his testimony during Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on health information blocking. According to Dr. Mirro, many electronic health record… Read More
STM publishing experts form financial advisory firm STM Advisers LLC dedicated to STM and academic publishing and scholarly communications - July 22, 2015
Scientific, technical, and medical publishing experts Joseph Esposito, Michael Clarke, and David Lamb have announced the formation of STM Advisers LLC ("STMA"), the first financial and strategic advisory firm dedicated to scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing, academic publishing, and scholarly communications. STMA represents clients in… Read More
Hindawi concludes in-depth investigation into peer review fraud - July 13, 2015
In November 2014 BioMed Central announced that it had uncovered systematic abuse within the peer review process of a number of its journals. This abuse seems to have been coordinated by a number of third-party agencies that were helping authors to get published in well-respected scholarly… Read More
Universities in the Netherlands may ask their researchers to resign from editorial positions with Elsevier journals in open access row - July 7, 2015
Universities in the Netherlands are reportedly preparing to ask their researchers to resign from editorial positions with Elsevier journals amid deadlock over a new subscription deal with the publisher. The universities have been in dispute with the Amsterdam-based publisher since late last year after they… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan imprint to continue as part of Springer Nature - June 8, 2015
Global academic and business publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that the Palgrave Macmillan imprint will continue as part of Springer Nature, publishing books, monographs and journals in professional, business, finance and the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The Palgrave higher education imprint will also continue as… Read More
Experts criticise a leading journal’s backtrack regarding policies on conflict of interest - June 2, 2015
A group of former senior editors, writing in The BMJ, have criticised a 'seriously flawed and inflammatory attack' by The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on what that journal believes have become overly stringent policies on conflicts of interest. The NEJM was the first major… Read More
Euro payment option now available for Karger customers in the entire eurozone - June 2, 2015
Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers has announced that it is offering its customers in the entire euro monetary zone the option to purchase its publications in euro from July 1, 2015. The Swiss-based and globally active family-run publishing company, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this… Read More
Open-access publisher Frontiers dismisses 31 editors amid fierce row over independence - May 26, 2015
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers has reportedly dismissed almost the entire leadership of two medical journals amid a heated argument over editorial independence. 31 editors of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine were dismissed on May 7 after the editors complained that company staff were… Read More
Evidence Aid researchers support international efforts in Nepal - May 14, 2015
As the second major earthquake struck Nepal less than three weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake, UK-based Evidence Aid has joined the world's renewed response. It is helping health workers decide what to do, and what to avoid. Evidence Aid… Read More
Twelve leading national research and education networks open doors for international research - May 14, 2015
Twelve leading national research and education networks (NRENs) representing the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, and including Jisc's Janet network, have announced the official launch of the second 'Enlighten Your Research Global (EYR-Global)' programme. This programme, which helps accelerate international research collaborations by providing selected proposals… Read More
