CrossRef launches CrossMark update identification service for scholarly content users - April 30, 2012
CrossRef, a US-based not-for-profit membership association of publishers, has launched the CrossMark update identification service. The CrossMark system will alert researchers to important changes that may occur to published scholarly content and will highlight important publication record information. The service has been piloted by several CrossRef… Read More
Elsevier releases ChemApps: Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis - April 27, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of ChemApps: Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis (SANROS), the second in a new series of apps for iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad based on Elsevier books. The first title, NeuroApps: MRI Atlas of Human White… Read More
SPARC publishes new guide for campus action related to journal marketplace - April 27, 2012
SPARC has produced a guide suggesting positive actions that faculty, researchers and other campus stakeholders can take to help contribute to the creation of a more equitable journal marketplace. This is purportedly inspired by the willingness of the academic community to speak out against practices… Read More
New BioMed Central journal to focus on cilia research - April 27, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal, Cilia. The journal welcomes basic and translational research into the biology of cilia and diseases associated with ciliary dysfunction. Topics of interest include a wide range of areas from human genetics to… Read More
Aviation Week launches redesigned website with enhanced features - April 27, 2012
Aviation Week has unveiled its redesigned AviationWeek.com and enhanced subscriber-based Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN). These recent changes are said to share the common goal of continuously simplifying and integrating the products and services to meet the changing needs of today's aerospace and defence (A&D) market.… Read More
Solar Energy International selects Pearson to create a new professional textbook series - April 26, 2012
Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has been selected by Solar Energy International (SEI), a provider of technical training in solar, wind, water power and natural building technologies, to create a new professional textbook series available in print and eBook formats. SEI offers hands-on… Read More
Cambridge University Press set to publish new online only animal nutrition journal - April 25, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, has announced that it will publish a new online only animal nutrition journal. The new journal entitled Journal of Applied Animal Nutrition (JAAN) will join Cambridge's list in animal science and nutrition from 2012. Dr Lucy Waldron will serve as… Read More
SAGE and Association for Psychological Science launch new journal, Clinical Psychological Science - April 24, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) have announced the launch of Clinical Psychological Science, a new peer-reviewed journal focused on publishing advances in clinical science and providing a venue for cutting-edge research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches… Read More
PLoS Currents moves to new publishing platform, Annotum - April 23, 2012
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that its PLoS Currents has moved to a new publishing platform, Annotum, offering easier interaction to all users. PLoS Currents is an innovative, online publication channel for new scientific research and ideas organised by focused research areas. It… Read More
Journal of NeuroEngineering brings out thematic series on mobility technology - April 23, 2012
Open Access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that a new thematic series ‘Major trends in mobility technology’ was recently published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. Guest edited by Brian Caulfield and Silvestro Micera, this series aims to review mobility technology research in Europe.… Read More
