Twelve BioMed journals to receive official JCR Impact Factors for first time - June 19, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the 2007 edition of the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports will include the first official Impact Factors for 12 BioMed Central journals as well as updated Impact Factors for 28 more. The reports will be released later… Read More
Online literature evaluation services now free to explore - June 16, 2008
Online services Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine, the expert-driven article evaluation services, are now freely available for scientists, medics and journalists to explore. Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine are online services that help to… Read More
JISC joins consortium for OA publishing in high energy physics - June 11, 2008
It has been announced that the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has joined SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), which offers a new model of open access (OA) publishing. Under this model, funding agencies and libraries cover authors' publication payments to… Read More
Portico and Ithaka release results of Digital Preservation Survey of US library directors - June 9, 2008
In September 2005, library directors from 17 universities and colleges met to discuss the current state of electronic journal preservation and endorsed a statement calling for 'Urgent Action' to preserve scholarly e-journals. Over two years later in January 2008, Portico and Ithaka invited 1,371 library directors… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe releases new patent family file on STN International - June 9, 2008
Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, has released the new bibliographic patent family file INPAFAMDB (International Patent Family Database) on STN International. Data sources of INPAFAMDB are the EPO Patent Information Resource that currently covers 81 patent authorities, and the INPADOC legal status file covering… Read More
OA articles published in Oxford Open to be deposited in PubMed Central free of cost - June 6, 2008
The Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that open access (OA) articles published in over 50 journals in the Oxford Open initiative will now automatically be deposited in PubMed Central (PMC). PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at… Read More
OAI unveils beta version of ORE specifications and user guides - June 5, 2008
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has released the beta version of the ORE specifications and user guides as part of its Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) project. Under the project, launched 18 months ago, international experts from the publishing, web, library and e-science community developed standards… Read More
SAGE-Hindawi launch new OA journal – Human Genomics and Proteomics - June 4, 2008
Open access (OA) journal Human Genomics and Proteomics (HGP) marks the first title to be launched through SAGE-Hindawi, a joint venture between Sage Publishing and the Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The journal is the first database journal affiliated with a database, FINDbase: the… Read More
The Company of Biologists announce completion of the online archive of Development - May 26, 2008
The Company of Biologists has announced the completion of the process of digital retro conversion of the archives of its journal - Development. The entire contents of the journal's predecessor, the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (JEEM), is now freely available online. The complete archive… Read More
BioMed Central articles now indexed in Zetoc and SOCOLAR - May 26, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its articles are now indexed in both the Zetoc and SOCOLAR services. Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents for journals and conference proceedings. The service is free to use for members of… Read More
