Society for Standards Professionals announces publication of SES 3:2016, Recommended Practice for Joint Standards Development - June 1, 2016
The Society for Standards Professionals has announced the publication of a Recommended Practice for Joint Standards Development to provide guidance to Standards Development Organizations by outlining the key components of a Joint Standards Agreement and a recommended process for managing the development of Joint Standards. … Read More
Elsevier announces new reference modules in life sciences, and neuroscience and biobehavioral psychology - May 27, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced two new Reference Modules, the first in Life Sciences, and the second in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Each will provide researchers, clinicians, educators and students access to reference content updated as science progresses. The new Reference Modules are available now for… Read More
Altmetric launch Badges for Books – new chapter-level insights for thousands of scholarly books - May 26, 2016
Launching on Routledge Handbooks Online, Altmetric Badges for Books enables publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received. Now available on content that is identified by ISBN (International Standard Book Number),… Read More
EBSCO Information Services releases Bibliography of Asian Studies via EBSCOhost - May 25, 2016
The Bibliography of Asian Studies™ (BAS), an authoritative resource for research and scholarly literature on East, Southeast and South Asia, is now available from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The Bibliography of Asian Studies is produced by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) which partnered with EBSCO… Read More
Healio.com to launch ‘In the Journals Plus’ at 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - May 25, 2016
Healio.com will introduce 'In the Journals Plus' at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, June 3-7 in Chicago. 'In the Journals Plus' provides busy physicians with summaries of the top articles from leading journals and includes physician… Read More
Karger Publishers to launch new journal Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases during Digestive Disease Week - May 19, 2016
Medical and scientific publisher Karger Publishers has announced the launch of Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases, a new journal in the field of gastroenterology and intestinal pathophysiology that aims to provide a platform for Asian and Western research to further and support communication and the exchange of knowledge.… Read More
Elsevier publishes new Encyclopedia of Immunobiology - May 17, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Encyclopedia of Immunobiology, edited by Michael Ratcliffe. It provides the largest integrated source of immunological knowledge currently available, consisting of broad ranging, validated summaries of all major topics in the field written by a team of leading experts.… Read More
NISO releases draft altmetrics recommended practices on Data Metrics, Alternative Outputs, and Persistent Identifiers - May 17, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking comments on three draft documents related to Altmetrics: NISO RP-25-201x-2A, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics; NISO RP-25-201x-2B, Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications; and NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications. The documents are the latest… Read More
New citation category helps assess clinical impact to tell stories of clinical research - May 13, 2016
Plum Analytics, an EBSCO company, has introduced a new area of citations - Clinical Citations. This will allow clinical and translational science researchers, and those who fund and publish their work, to track the research with the PlumX™ Suite when the work is cited in materials… Read More
American Psychological Association launch PsycINFO Data Solutions, a new text and citation data mining service - May 12, 2016
The American Psychological Association has announced the launch of PsycINFO Data Solutions, a new service for large-scale mining and analysis of publication and citation data from the rich content found in the APA research databases. PsycINFO Data Solutions allows researchers to identify trends and patterns… Read More
