Healio launches new website - June 3, 2020
Healio has announced the launch of the new, fully-reengineered Healio.com. Reflecting Healio’s mission statement, the website offers an enhanced user experience aimed at providing specialty healthcare professionals with highly personalised news and education tailored to fit their daily practice of medicine. … Read More
NLM set to launch NIH preprint pilot in PubMed Central - June 2, 2020
NLM is set to launch a pilot project to test the viability of making preprints resulting from NIH-funded research available via PubMed Central (PMC). The primary goal of the NIH Preprint Pilot will be to explore approaches to increasing the discoverability of early NIH research results.… Read More
Pensoft to publish the paleontology and geobiology journal Zitteliana on behalf of SNSB - June 1, 2020
Scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft has announced that the scholarly peer-reviewed, open-access journal on paleontology and geobiology, Zitteliana, will be published on the technologically advanced scholarly publishing platform ARPHA. The move follows a recent contract between the State Natural History Collection… Read More
LM Information Delivery announces release of comprehensive usage analytics tool, LibMetrix - June 1, 2020
LM Information Delivery, an international information services provider, has announced the latest release of their comprehensive usage analytics tool, LibMetrix. One of the key features of the spring 2020 release of LibMetrix is an external subscription data upload facility. Users can now easily upload the cost… Read More
Gale Digital Scholar Lab adds instructional support, gains customer momentum - May 21, 2020
Gale, a Cengage company, is providing digital humanities students and researchers with a streamlined learning experience for building text analysis projects. The company has added instructional support to the Gale Digital Scholar Lab with the launch of its new integrated Learning Center.… Read More
SSP announces RFP for abstract management system - May 18, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is accepting request for proposals (RFP) for an abstract management system on a cost-neutral basis to support the needs of the organisation as described within the Scope of Services starting in August 2020. The goal of… Read More
Senckenberg Nature Research Society in deal with Pensoft to publish journals on ARPHA - May 18, 2020
Scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft has signed with Senckenberg Nature Research Society to publish three journals: Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, Vertebrate Zoology and Geologica Saxonica on behalf of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden. Expected to move to the Pensoft-developed technologically advanced scholarly publishing… Read More
Forensic Genomics set to launch in September 2020 - May 15, 2020
Forensic Genomics, a new peer-reviewed journal, will launch its preview issue at the annual International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI) in September 2020. Forensic Genomics elucidates modern advances in genetic testing, genome sequencing, and analysis which are enabling investigators to break through previously impenetrable barriers… Read More
American Journal of Preventive Medicine focuses on public health aspects of COVID-19 - May 14, 2020
New research and guidance in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, focus on critical topics pertaining to community and individual health during the COVID-19 epidemic. Researchers outline guidelines to help address the unique and often overlooked risks posed by COVID-19 to both prison… Read More
The Pistoia Alliance unveils toolkit to step up implementation of FAIR data principles - May 14, 2020
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has launched a freely accessible toolkit to help companies implement the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guiding principles for data management and stewardship. The project is funded by… Read More