EBSCO Information Services and Clarivate Analytics to make BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record available via EBSCOhost platform - December 16, 2016
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will be adding two new resources, BIOSIS Previews™ and Zoological Record™, to the EBSCOhost® platform. EBSCO and Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, have expanded their partnership to make these two resources available via EBSCOhost, the… Read More
ASM announces January 2017 launch of mSphereDirect, a new, innovative science publishing pathway - December 14, 2016
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced mSphereDirect, a new pathway of manuscript review and submission for mSphere, ASM's pan-microbial, open-access science journal. This new pathway aims to take the mystery out of the peer review process by allowing authors, with clear policy guidelines, to… Read More
Gale unveils interactive resources for Chemistry and Anatomy - December 14, 2016
Gale, a Cengage company, has launched Gale Interactive: Chemistry and Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy for the academic market. Through innovative technology, these new digital resources combine Gale's curriculum-aligned research content with interactive 3D models from partner VIVED to help students understand science topics. With these… Read More
Elsevier launches CiteScore metrics in Scopus to assess academic journal quality - December 9, 2016
Information products and services provider Elsevier has launched CiteScoreTM metrics in Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, providing the scholarly community free access to comprehensive metrics for journals from over 5,000 publishers. The new set of metrics will improve decisions on… Read More
Springer offers flexible purchasing option for Springer Book Archives - December 8, 2016
Springer, part of Springer Nature, is offering its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are divided up into "eras," and make it easier for libraries to purchase individual subject collections according to their own needs and current budget situation.… Read More
Elsevier announces latest editions of two key virology titles, publishes seven additional virology and microbiology books - December 8, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the latest editions of Fenner and White's Medical Virology by Drs. Christopher Burrell, Colin Howard and Frederick Murphy, and Fenner's Veterinary Virology by Drs. N. James MacLachlan and Edward Dubovi. These thoroughly revised books provide comprehensive coverage of… Read More
Beta version of SocArXiv officially launched - December 8, 2016
A beta version of SocArXiv, the open access, open source archive of social science, has been officially launched. Created in partnership with the Center for Open Science, SocArXiv provides a free, non-commercial service for rapid sharing of academic papers. It is built on the Open… Read More
Wiley launches new Author Services website - December 6, 2016
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. has announced the launch of a new Author Services website that streamlines the publishing process for authors publishing with the majority of Wiley’s more than 1600 journals. Author Services supports users through every stage of the publishing process, from submission… Read More
Digital Science releases Global Research Identifier Database under CC0 license - December 6, 2016
Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities, has announced that the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) dataset will be made available under a CC0 license allowing users to make full use of the database releases with no need for attribution.… Read More
HathiTrust releases significantly expanded open dataset, the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Extracted Features (EF) Dataset, Version 1.0 - December 6, 2016
https://www.hathitrust.orgHathiTrust has announced the release of a significantly expanded open dataset, the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Extracted Features (EF) Dataset, Version 1.0. This dataset provides researchers with open access to data extracted from the full text of the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) at an unprecedented scale. The Extracted Features… Read More
