IEEE 802.11 amended to enable improvements in capacity - January 9, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE, US, has announced that the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has approved the IEEE 802.11ad-2012 amendment to provide data rates up to 7 Gbps, more than 10 times the maximum speed previously enabled within the IEEE 802.11 standard. With the improvements… Read More
F1000Research comes out of beta - January 9, 2013
F1000Research, the first Open Science publisher, has launched following a successful beta testing phase. Launching on a new publishing platform, F1000Research is F1000's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists, offering researchers for the first time: immediate publication; transparent and fast peer review post-publication; and… Read More
Gale adds new multimedia resource to its NGVL product line - January 9, 2013
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced the launch of National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) product line. This new resource… Read More
‘Journal of Medical Case Reports’ offers discounted article processing charge - January 8, 2013
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has announced that it is offering a discounted article processing charge to Journal of Medical Case Reports authors and expanding the scope of its Case Report of the Year Award. The moves are to celebrate the launch of Cases Database,… Read More
BMJ Group releases instructions for authors now in Chinese - January 7, 2013
Medical information provider BMJ Group, UK, has released instructions for authors of all its journals in Chinese to further its leadership in improving health and clinical practice worldwide. The service covers the BMJ as well as the Group's 40 specialty medical journals. Researchers and clinicians… Read More
TechTarget unveils Spanish-language website to guide IT professionals in Latin America - January 4, 2013
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. has announced the launch of SearchDataCenter en Español, a new Spanish-language website that serves the needs of Latin American IT buyers. It seeks to provide high-quality, unbiased advice, best practices, and technical how-to information on core enterprise IT topics. SearchDataCenter… Read More
‘Digital Humanities in Practice’ available via ALA Neal-Schuman - January 4, 2013
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the publication of Digital Humanities in Practice. The book is published by Facet Publishing and available through ALA Neal-Schuman. Digital humanities is projected as a vibrant and increasingly important global field, drawing together a broad spectrum of disciplines. The… Read More
Reed Tech, PatentCore launch Reed Tech Patent Advisor information services - January 3, 2013
Reed Technology and Information Services Inc., a part of the LexisNexis family and a provider of content management services, and PatentCore, a publisher of online patent office analytics, have announced the launch of Reed Tech Patent Advisor information services. The new offering comprises a family of… Read More
‘Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics’ publishes special issue on theranostics - January 3, 2013
Expert Reviews, a publisher of commentary and analysis in modern healthcare, has announced the publication of a special issue of Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics on the emerging field of theranostics (November 2012; volume 12, issue 8). Guest edited by experts Vural Özdemir (Research Group… Read More
New organisation Rubriq offers standardised peer review scorecard process - December 21, 2012
Rubriq, a new for-benefit organisation, has been formed to address the challenges of the peer review system for scientific publishing, and to recover lost hours from redundant reviews so they can be put back into research. In the current journal submission process, rejection is common, yet… Read More
