NewsRx launches 38 new science titles - July 30, 2008
Publisher and international news organisation NewsRx, US, has launched 38 new science titles under its VerticalNews imprint. The new science titles will provide current news, scientific research, and developments on national defense, aerospace, agriculture, chemicals and chemistry, ecology, environment, conservation, energy, engineering, food science, farming, mining… Read More
Microsoft Research unveils free software for researchers to publish their work - July 30, 2008
Representatives of Microsoft Research, part of technology firm Microsoft Corp., US, outlined their vision for how Microsoft and academics can collaborate on research projects to develop technological breakthroughs at the company's ninth annual Research Faculty Summit. Speaking to more than 400 faculty members from leading research… Read More
New publication on Pesticide Formulations and Delivery Systems from ASTM International - July 30, 2008
Publisher ASTM International, US, has announced the availability of the STP 1500, Pesticide Formulations and Delivery Systems, 27th Volume: Traditional and Non-Traditional Developments. The compilation is claimed to be a valuable source of information for formulation chemists, regulators and those in industries related to pesticide applications.… Read More
Armenian Academy of Sciences launches new OA journals - July 30, 2008
Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia has launched two new open access journals - Armenian Journal of Mathematics and Armenian Journal of Physics. The Armenian Journal of Mathematics aims to publish original research papers and survey articles in… Read More
Scopus adds pre-print research abstracts from publishers - July 29, 2008
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has added 'Articles-in-Press' (AiP), abstracts of accepted research papers published prior to being printed, from journals produced by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, and Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Later this year,… Read More
Thomson Reuters adds new features to ISI Web of Knowledge platform - July 29, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that new features have been added to ISI Web of Knowledge. Most notably, a citation mapping tool has been incorporated to provide researchers with a visual result to their research. The citation mapping tool tracks an article's… Read More
Oxford University Press announces forthcoming journal on OA databases in biology - July 29, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced plans to launch a new online-only journal - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Computational biologist David Landsmann will serve as the journal's editor-in-chief. Scheduled for launch in January 2009, the Journal of… Read More
Neurotherapeutics brings out special issue on new treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease - July 29, 2008
The editors of the journal Neurotherapeutics have announced that the journal's July issue is dedicated to 'Novel Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease.' Published by Elsevier, Neurotherapeutics is the journal of the American Society of Experimental NeuroTherapeutics (ASENT). The issue coincides with the 2008 Alzheimer's Association International Conference… Read More
American Physical Society unveils new journal - July 28, 2008
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced that the inaugural issue of its new journal - Physics - is now online. David Voss, formerly a senior editor of Science, serves as editor of the journal. Physics does not publish original research articles, but short pieces to… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases CMR International’s 2008 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook - July 28, 2008
The Scientific division of business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the availability of the newly published CMR International 2008 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook. The publication is projected as a key reference and business planning tool for decision makers in pharmaceutical R&D, corporate finance, business strategy,… Read More
