Nature authors now have the option to have anonymous referee reports published once a manuscript is ready for publication - February 7, 2020
Nature Research announced that beginning this week, authors of new submissions to its flagship publication, Nature, will be offered the option to have anonymous referee reports published, along with their own responses and rebuttals, once a manuscript is ready for publication. Referees… Read More
IOP Publishing fortifies commitment to open science - February 7, 2020
Society-owned publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) has set out its commitments to supporting open science across the physical sciences with the launch of open physics. Open physics is rooted in IOPP’s belief that conducting science more openly can accelerate scientific discovery. It combines an evolving programme of… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers set to launch Palliative Medicine Reports in Spring 2020 - February 7, 2020
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers will launch Palliative Medicine Reports, a new peer-reviewed open access companion to the highly regarded Journal of Palliative Medicine, in Spring 2020. All articles in Palliative Medicine Reports will be published open access to ensure broad and rapid distribution and visibility… Read More
OUP to develop PISA 2024 Science Framework - February 6, 2020
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has won a competitive tender by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to develop the Science Framework for PISA 2024. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is widely acknowledged as the benchmark for evaluating education systems across… Read More
Annual Reviews unveils new interdisciplinary journal, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology - February 6, 2020
Annual Reviews, a non-profit publisher of scholarly review journals, has announced the publication of the first volume of the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. The new journal is co- edited by Susan A. Gelman (University of Michigan) and Sandra R. Waxman (Northwestern University), and provides an… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new website to help researchers in China navigate the world of scientific publishing - February 5, 2020
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has launched a new website dedicated to helping researchers in China navigate the world of scientific publishing. IOPChina will offer Chinese researchers information on their publishing options, and how IOPP can work with them in getting their latest research published. It also has… Read More
Acta Acustica, the journal of the European Acoustics Association, now live - February 5, 2020
Last June EDP Sciences and the European Acoustics Association (EAA) agreed to publish Acta Acustica (formerly Acta Acustica united with Acustica) in partnership from January 2020. At the time, it was also announced that the journal would become fully gold open access from January 2020. With… Read More
Springer Nature expands research sharing initiative SharedIt to include conference proceedings - February 4, 2020
Springer Nature continues its commitment to opening up research and enabling the advancement of discovery with the rollout of the SharedIt initiative to proceedings books. Following a successful pilot in 2018, SharedIt will enable to exchange/share links on individual papers in the Lecture Notes in Computer… Read More
Get rapid access to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) sequence data from NLM’s GenBank® - February 3, 2020
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), through its GenBank® sequence database, is providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from the novel coronavirus associated with the recent outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a global health emergency on… Read More
CCC introduces ‘Touch-Free’ Workflow feature to RightsLink® for Scientific Communications - January 31, 2020
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced a new ‘touch-free’ workflow feature to its market-leading transformative agreement workflow solution, RightsLink® for Scientific Communications. RightsLink now offers increased support for Read and Publish, Publish and Read, Pure… Read More
