Inderscience announces inaugural issues of five new journals - July 1, 2008
STM and business publisher, Inderscience, Switzerland, has published the first issues of 5 new titles. The new journals are: International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, International Journal… Read More
Individual scientists in developing countries gain access to SPIE Digital Library - June 30, 2008
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has arranged for the SPIE Digital Library to become available free of charge to researchers and students in more than 90 countries served by ICTP's electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS). Through eJDS, ICTP… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal – Molecular Brain - June 25, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of Molecular Brain, a new open access, independent journal. The journal will cover all aspects of studies on the nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system level. Molecular Brain seeks to provide a forum for… Read More
BioMed Central announces January 2009 launch of new medical journal, Genome Medicine - June 20, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its new medical journal Genome Medicine, is now accepting submissions. An online peer-reviewed journal, Genome Medicine will publish its first articles in January 2009 and will be indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and other indexing services.… Read More
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
