The BMJ launches special collection on China’s health reforms - June 24, 2019
The BMJ has launched a special collection of articles that analyse the achievements and challenges of China’s health system reforms that started in 2009. The collection was launched at a special event in Beijing on June 22, 2019. The articles, written by leading Chinese experts,… Read More
EMBO Press relaunches redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum - June 21, 2019
EMBO Press has relaunched a completely redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum, the scholarly publishing industry’s most widely used online publishing platform. The move to Literatum brings EMBO Press journals together on a single platform for the first time. The journals will… Read More
Springer Nature launches new collection of educational, standalone, peer-reviewed videos on SpringerLink - June 20, 2019
Springer Nature is launching a new collection of educational, standalone, peer-reviewed videos on its online content platform SpringerLink. Available from July, the videos will cover a wide range of content from demonstrations of surgical techniques to tailored lecture series and interviews with researchers. Content for the… Read More
Gale enhances user experience across product portfolio to deliver better research insights and outcomes - June 20, 2019
Gale, a Cengage company, is making enhancements across its portfolio of products, improving the functionality and user experience of its research tools to make its content more discoverable. Now libraries and researchers have superior access to high-quality authoritative content online and in the classroom, delivering better… Read More
Elsevier unveils the International Center for the Study of Research - June 19, 2019
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has launched a groundbreaking new Center tasked with examining and advancing the evaluation of research across all fields of knowledge production. The International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) will work closely with the… Read More
Elsevier launches Current Research journals, new titles will meet growing demand for gold open access - June 18, 2019
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, continues to expand its offering of gold open access titles with the launch of Current Research, a series of primary research titles spanning the life and physical sciences. Current Research will serve as a companion to… Read More
SAGE unveils new Terminology Service with the Social Science Thesaurus - June 18, 2019
Housing over 61,000 concepts, SAGE Publishing’s new Terminology Service is a valuable tool to aid researchers in understanding and exploring key concepts. It launches with the SAGE Social Science Thesaurus, a multidisciplinary vocabulary of the most important concepts in the social… Read More
ProQuest launches virtual reality and 360-degree viewing functionality for select videos - June 18, 2019
ProQuest has announced the launch of virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree viewing functionality for select videos on the ProQuest search platform, as well as in ProQuest One™ Academic and on the newly redesigned Alexander Street video interface. ProQuest is the first academic streaming video platform to… Read More
Voting Members of NISO approve new standardisation project, Criteria for Indexes - June 17, 2019
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new standardisation project, Criteria for Indexes. This work, intended to become an ANSI standard to replace the Z39.4 standard that was withdrawn in 1997, will provide a modern approach to guidelines for the content,… Read More
The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate’s new supplement ‘Agora’ to publish non-traditional scientific output in the field of space weather and space climate - June 17, 2019
The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC), published by EDP Sciences, has announced the launch of a new supplement titled “Agora”. The Agora, a term which denoted in ancient Greek an assembly place for various aspects of public life including intellectual exchange and debate,… Read More
