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
New De Gruyter journal emphasizes more research on pleura and peritoneum - May 9, 2016
A new De Gruyter journal Pleura and Peritoneum aims to reinvigorate research into the relatively obscure membranes that protect the lungs and abdomen. While the pleura and peritoneum have been largely overlooked by researchers in recent years, this wasn't always the case: Ancient medical literature discusses… Read More
Elsevier publishes new Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology - May 5, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, edited by Dr. Richard Kliman. The four-volume set covers the entire field of evolutionary biology in an easy-to-search structure, making it an ideal reference for professionals and advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Elsevier also… Read More
Wolters Kluwer to publish JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports - May 5, 2016
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, will begin publishing JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, official journal of The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a leading international producer of evidence-based practice resources and tools. … Read More
Taylor & Francis Group launches TandFChina.com, an online hub for Chinese customers and partners - May 5, 2016
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has launched TandFChina.com, an online hub for the scholarly community in China. It offers key resources for authors, researchers, journal editors, research librarians and learned societies in Mandarin, as well as being a gateway to all… Read More
Gale launches Gale Interactive: Science, a new digital science resource for schools - May 5, 2016
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has launched Gale Interactive: Science, a new digital science resource available now for schools. This new product uses innovative technology to combine Gale's curriculum-aligned research content with interactive 3D models from partner Cyber Science 3D, to help students understand science… Read More
Blazegraph 2.1.0 graph database now enables geospatial searching and PubChem data processing - May 5, 2016
Blazegraph, a provider of highly scalable software for solving complex graph and machine learning algorithms, has announced version 2.1.0, with significant updates that give users faster, easier access to key data sets, such as new support for processing geospatial coordinates and optimizing queries against the National… Read More
Springer and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology launch new multidisciplinary journal - May 4, 2016
Global publisher Springer and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP) are launching a new multidisciplinary journal called Occupational Health Science on the broad field of occupational health psychology and well-being. The journal offers an international perspective, a translational/evidence-based practice focus and… Read More
