IOS Press brings out inaugural issue of Semantic Web journal - December 16, 2010
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced that the first issue of the Semantic Web journal has been published. The online version of the journal is freely accessible. The inaugural issue contains vision statements by the members of the Editorial Board. While these contributions were… Read More
Special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE focuses Sensor Networks and Applications - December 15, 2010
Technical professional association IEEE has released a special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE, a highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science. A network more powerful than the Internet, while perhaps inconceivable right now, is just one of many potentially life-changing applications… Read More
WebLib develops new application for Elsevier’s SciVerse Applications - December 14, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that as a result of a partnership with WebLib, a new application, HealthMash, is now available on SciVerse Applications beta. WebLib developed the HealthMash application to provide insights to scientific researchers with… Read More
Thieme publishes Harms Study Group guide on idiopathic scoliosis - December 10, 2010
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that it has published the Idiopathic Scoliosis: The Harms Study Group Treatment Guide. The textbook is projected as the culmination of more than a decade of research and observation by members of the Harms Study Group. It is… Read More
Future Science launches new journal – Clinical Investigation - December 9, 2010
Publisher Future Science Ltd has announced the launch of a new title - Clinical Investigation. The journal is the latest addition to the Future Science's collection of titles addressing those areas that most impact our daily lives (available at www.future-science.com). Clinical… Read More
Springer launches free analytics tool – realtime.springer.com - December 8, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced the launch of a new free analytics tool, http://realtime.springer.com, which provides multiple visualisations of the usage that is generated worldwide by Springer's online products, including journals, books, images and protocols. Realtime.springer.com aggregates the raw data on… Read More
Macmillan launches Digital Science - December 8, 2010
International publishing business Macmillan Publishers Ltd, UK, has announced the launch of Digital Science, a new division of the company and a new kind of scientific information enterprise. Digital Science will focus on providing world-class software tools and services to scientists, managers… Read More
ALPSP, Swets launch 2011 ALPSP Learned Journals Collection - December 7, 2010
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and subscriptions services company Swets have announced the launch of the 2011 ALPSP Learned Journals Collection (ALJC). With a total of 1014 titles, the 2011 collection claims to be the largest to date,… Read More
Co-Action Publishing and European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies launch European Journal of Psychotraumatology - December 6, 2010
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) have announced the launch of the society's new journal - European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT). Miranda Olff of the Academic Medical Center, Netherlands, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief. She… Read More
NLM’s History of Medicine Division releases new Web interface for searching text and audio content - December 3, 2010
The National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division (HMD) has announced the release of a new Web interface to its oral history collections, as part of its growing electronic texts programme. Content includes digital editions of transcripts and any accompanying audio… Read More