New Thomson Reuters report reveals positive outlook for pharmaceutical industry and key insights into current trends - September 9, 2014
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has released its annual synopsis of pharmaceutical industry trends in its 2014 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook, compiled by CMR International, a Thomson Reuters business and world leader in global pharmaceutical R&D performance metrics. The report found a number… Read More
UK research secures new national data centre - September 5, 2014
Research in the UK has been given a boost this week as specialist data centre provider, Infinity, secured a five year framework agreement with Janet, the UK's national research and education network, provided by Jisc. The deal sees the creation of a Jisc data centre… Read More
Simba Information releases Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017 - September 4, 2014
A global campaign by scientists, librarians, research funders and universities to increase open access (OA) to scientific research has created a fast growing revenue stream for scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal publishers — this according to Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017, the most recent report from media and publishing… Read More
International Publishers Association releases new report on electronic legal deposit - August 18, 2014
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has released a new report on electronic legal deposit. Legal deposit schemes, which require publishers to submit copies of books and journals to a national library, is considered a vital part in preserving a country's cultural heritage. While national approaches to… Read More
Publishers increasingly concerned about ebook quality, says new DCL and Bowker survey on digital publishing industry trends - August 1, 2014
Publishers are increasingly concerned with quality as they move towards digital productions, according to a new survey on trends in the digital publishing industry. Of the respondents, 84 percent are planning to publish digitally in 2014 (an increase of 21 percent over the prior year), and 52 percent of respondents… Read More
F1000Research brings static research figures to life - July 31, 2014
F1000Research has published a new research from Bjorn Brembs, professor of neurogenetics at the Institute of Zoology, Universitaet Regensburg, in Germany, with a proof-of-concept figure allowing readers and reviewers to run the underlying code within the online article. This represents an important leap forward for scientific… Read More
Open access articles have more views and downloads, reveals Nature Communications data - July 30, 2014
An independent statistical analysis of the articles published in Nature Communications, carried out by the Research Information Network (RIN), has found that open access (OA) articles are viewed three times more often than articles that are only available to subscribers. RIN also… Read More
MarketResearchReports.Biz adds Global Medical Publishing Market 2014-2018 report to its offering - July 30, 2014
MarketResearchReports.Biz has announced the addition of a new market research report 'Global Medical Publishing Market 2014-2018: Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast' to its collection of research reports. According to the report, Global Medical Publishing market will decline at a CAGR of 0.56… Read More
Researchers positive about Open access but some uncertainty still remains, says 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey - July 1, 2014
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has released the 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey. The survey asked researchers a series of questions on their perceptions of open access; their attitudes, values and understanding of it; and what they believe the future of research communication to… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ new study analyses patent data and scientific literature for clues to the next decade’s biggest breakthroughs - July 1, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released The World in 2025: 10 Predictions of Innovation, a new report that predicts the landscape of science and technology in 2025 by mining global patent data and scientific literature. To conduct the study, researchers… Read More
