Springer launches new platform to promote interdisciplinary research - June 22, 2018
Springer has launched the Polar Platform, a unique platform dedicated to research in polar sciences. The platform aims at developing a comprehensive collection of books, open access publications, journal articles and reference works published as part of Springer's polar sciences programme. It also features interviews with… Read More
Ex Libris Esploro research services platform now available to all Esploro development partners - June 22, 2018
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Ex Libris Esploro™ research services platform will now be available to all Esploro development partners. The first release of Esploro represents an important phase in the development of a unified research platform that will lead to broader… Read More
Altmetric releases Explorer ‘Highlights’ and enhanced user experience - June 21, 2018
Data science company Altmetric has announced a new Altmetric Explorer feature, Highlights, and other useful interface enhancements that will make it easier and quicker for publishers, institutions, funders and researchers to track research influence as it happens. The Altmetric Explorer platform contains millions of collated… Read More
Unbound Medicine launches next generation literature search and tracking application - June 21, 2018
Unbound Medicine, a provider of knowledge management solutions for healthcare, has announced the launch of the next generation literature search and tracking application - Prime PubMed. Prime PubMed is the next step in Unbound's vision of integrating evidence from primary literature into the summary content… Read More
ProQuest expands remote and mobile access with Google Scholar - June 20, 2018
ProQuest has added support for two new Google Scholar features, giving academic researchers round-the-clock access to scholarly full-text articles and graduate works from anywhere in the world. Now, researchers who use Google Scholar can more easily discover and access the scholarly journal articles, dissertations and theses… Read More
Slack Incorporated and Editage partner to launch author services for peer-reviewed journals - June 20, 2018
SLACK Incorporated, an independent STM publishing company, has collaborated with Editage to launch author services for its peer-reviewed journals. SLACK Author Services, powered by Editage (https://slackauthorservices.editage.com), are designed to support authors with not only end-to-end pre-submission manuscript preparation, but also translations and… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new journal, Electronic Structure - June 18, 2018
IOP Publishing has introduced Electronic Structure (EST) as the newest addition to its journal portfolio. EST is a multidisciplinary journal, covering all theoretical and experimental aspects of electronic structure research, including the development of new methods. It is dedicated to the entirety of electronic structure… Read More
Project MUSE launches redesigned platform - June 18, 2018
Project MUSE, a provider of digital Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) content, has released its newly-redesigned web presence. The launch is a redesign and re-engineering of MUSE's proprietary platform. The URL structure for all book and journal content in MUSE will remain the same and… Read More
IOP Publishing launches two new review journals – Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Progress in Energy - June 15, 2018
IOP Publishing has launched two new review journals, Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Progress in Energy, dedicated to biomedical engineering and energy research. To build on the success of Reports on Progress in Physics, and IOP Publishing’s established energy and biomedical engineering titles, the new journals… Read More
BMC series expands into engineering, launches new journal – BMC Biomedical Engineering - June 14, 2018
BMC Biomedical Engineering, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal is now open for submissions and with it the BMC series enters for the first time a new subject area: engineering. This is the first of two newly launched journals in the BMC series. 2018 has… Read More
