Digital Science and the Ohio Department of Higher Education launch new online platform, OIEx - September 28, 2018
Research technology company Digital Science and the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) have launched The Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx). The new online platform connects industry with faculty, students, equipment, and facilities available at Ohio's research universities. OIEx consolidates these academic resources from multiple universities into… Read More
American Chemical Society expands applied materials portfolio with two new journals - September 27, 2018
In response to the growing community of interdisciplinary research in materials science, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced two new additions to the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces family of peer-reviewed journals. Launching in late 2018, ACS Applied Electronic Materials and… Read More
Overleaf launches new platform to enhance collaborative writing and publishing features - September 27, 2018
Scholarly writing and publishing tools provider Overleaf has updated its tool to offer enhanced collaboration and editing features. Bringing together the best features of both the original Overleaf and ShareLaTeX tools into a single cloud-based platform, the new Overleaf has been designed to enable students and… Read More
MIT Press and MIT Media Lab launch Knowledge Futures Group - September 26, 2018
The MIT Press has announced the launch of the Knowledge Futures Group (KFG), a first-of-its kind collaboration between a publisher and an academic lab to transform how research information is created and shared. This joint initiative of the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab… Read More
IOS Press announces new affiliation between NeuroRehabilitation and Cochrane Rehabilitation - September 25, 2018
STM publisher IOS Press has announced a new affiliation between NeuroRehabilitation (NRE) and Cochrane Rehabilitation to improve evidence-based neurorehabilitation practice. Abstracts from specially selected Cochrane Systematic Reviews relevant to neurorehabilitation will be published in NRE in a new section, Cochrane Corners. The new publishing mechanism… Read More
67 Bricks and BMJ launch new editorial production system, Knowledge Base - September 25, 2018
67 Bricks has announced the launch of Knowledge Base, a new editorial production system for publishing client BMJ Best Practice. The custom-built new system pulls together information and advice on 800 medical conditions in 30 specialist areas and enables clinicians to access and use that… Read More
Project MUSE offers nearly 300 ‘HTML5’ open access books on re-designed platform - September 25, 2018
Project MUSE, a provider of digital Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) content, has announced the availability of nearly 300 open access (OA) books on its new re-designed platform. The books will be delivered in a highly-discoverable and adaptable format using user-friendly HTML5, rather than static PDFs,… Read More
American Physical Society releases new physics classification scheme, PhySH - September 24, 2018
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced that PhySH, APS's new physics classification scheme, is now publicly available under a Creative Commons CC0 license. Created to provide a fully open, high-quality classification scheme for the entire physics community, PhySH groups concepts into a flexible hierarchy that… Read More
JPhys Materials publishes its inaugural issue - September 20, 2018
JPhys Materials, a journal focusing on interdisciplinary research marrying chemical, physical and engineering aspects of materials study, has published its first issue. The new IOP Publishing journal showcases the most significant and exciting developments in materials science research, all of which are published open access… Read More
BMJ to publish first issue of General Psychiatry - September 19, 2018
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ will publish the first issue of General Psychiatry, previously known as Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry. Working in partnership with Shanghai Medical Health Centre (SMHC), the journal is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed articles for mental health professionals, whilst offering… Read More