HighWire Publishers Now Have Access to ReadCube Connect Technology
Stanford University’s HighWire Press, Inc. and ReadCube are pleased to announce the completion of an agreement to offer ReadCube Connect to publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform.
The innovative HighWire Open Platform provides technology solutions for the scholarly community. ReadCube Connect is an interactive PDF viewer that integrates seamlessly into a publication’s article pages, keeping readers on-site and engaged. This new agreement will enable leading publications on the platform to join a collection of prestigious publishers such as Wiley, ASHA and SciELO, in offering ReadCube’s Enhanced PDF technol...
Source: News from STM - July 12, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Thomson Reuters Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell its Intellectual Property & Science Business to Onex and Baring Asia for $3.55 billion
Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Intellectual Property & Science business to private equity funds affiliated with Onex Corporation (“Onex”) and Baring Private Equity Asia (“Baring Asia”) for $3.55 billion in cash.
The sale is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, and is expected to close in the next few months. The sale is not subject to any financing condition. Onex and Baring Asia have...
Source: News from STM - July 12, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Thomson Reuters Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell its Intellectual Property & Science Business to Onex and Baring Asia for $3.55 billion
Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Intellectual Property & Science business to private equity funds affiliated with Onex Corporation (“Onex”) and Baring Private Equity Asia (“Baring Asia”) for $3.55 billion in cash.
The sale is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, and is expected to close in the next few months. The sale is not subject to any financing condition. Onex and Baring Asia have...
Source: News from STM - July 12, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Wiley journals increase Impact Factors in 2015 Journal Citation Reports
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, the world’s leading society publisher, today announced an increase in impact factors across more than half of its indexed titles. According to the 2015 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), recently released by Thomson Reuters®, 58% of Wiley journals increased their impact factor from 2014 to 2015. Wiley had 1,204 journals indexed (73% of the Wiley portfolio), an increase on the previous year, with 11 Wiley titles receiving their first impact factor in this year’s JCR release.
In addition, 26 Wiley journals achieved a top-category rank, including CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (Impact Facto...
Source: News from STM - July 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Exciting New Partnership: the Journal of Comorbidity affiliates with the Society for Academic Primary Care
The Journal of Comorbidity (JOC), published by Swiss Medical Press, is pleased to announce a new affiliation with the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC). The partnership is a key step in strengthening collaborations and enhancing opportunities among primary care professionals with an interest in comorbidity and multimorbidity.
“The partnership with JOC comes at a historic time,” commented Dr. Joanne Protheroe, Keele University Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, and Treasurer of SAPC. “Multimorbidity is now the norm, not the exception, and increased knowledge, research and guidance on the care, trea...
Source: News from STM - July 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
The Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal receives the SPARC Innovator Award
Pensoft’s journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) has received the SPARC Innovator Award for June 2016. The awarding body SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a global coalition committed to promoting openness for research and education. Their bi-annual Innovator Award goes to individuals and initiatives who dare to challenge the status quo in scholarly communication.
From the very start RIO was set to innovate traditional science publishing practices by opening up for publications from across the research cycle. The journal’s list of publication types includes Ideas, Grant Proposals, ...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
HighWire boosts customer performance with three key hires
Following the opening remarks by HighWire Press, Inc. CEO, Dan Filby at the Spring HighWire Publishers’ Meeting, the HighWire leadership team has been further strengthened by the appointment of three key individuals: John Doherty, Director Technical Support; Andre Kvaternik, Senior Director Professional Services; and Rob Smyth, Director of Engineering Quality Assurance.
The new appointments show HighWire’s commitment to providing outstanding customer experience by delivering operational excellence and also demonstrate the long-term investment in the HighWire team by Accel-KKR and Stanford University.
John and Rob have...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Impact factors of Springer and Palgrave Macmillan journals announced: increased number of journals in JCR
The 2016 update of the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) lists a total of 1,681 Springer journals among its numbers. This figure includes the Palgrave Macmillan journals which are now hosted on the online platform SpringerLink. Forty of these are newcomers to the JCR and have an impact factor for the first time. A total of 52 percent of these journals increased their impact factor from 2014 to 2015.
The Palgrave Macmillan journals joined SpringerLink in 2016 following the merger of the majority of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science Business+Media in 2015, forming the publishing group Spring...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Alexander Street Joins the ProQuest Family of Companies
Alexander Street, a leading provider of streaming videos and music as well as award-winning primary source collections to libraries around the world, has joined the ProQuest family of companies. The companies’ complementary content assets will enable libraries, faculty and students to improve research and learning outcomes.
The acquisition brings together Alexander Street’s valuable video, music and unique primary source collections with ProQuest’s extensive aggregation of content, which encompasses nearly a billion searchable items in 20 academic disciplines as well as 270 million pages of historical primary sou...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
London Info International announces The Disruptor Zone
London Info International has announced the launch of The Disruptor Zone, at their 2016 event, taking place on the 6th and 7th December at London’s ExCel.
This is a competitive event that takes place on the showfloor and will be available for all LII attendees and delegates to attend.
On the 6th December selected organisations will present their business concept in short, timed presentations on the London Info International showfloor. There will be independent judges in attendance. Attendees will be able to score each presentation and make comments throughout using Twitter. These will display live on the Twitter board on...
Source: News from STM - June 24, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
EDP Sciences and SICOT announce the launch of a new Open Access journal in orthopaedics: SICOT-J
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Source: News from STM - February 17, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: admin Source Type: news
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners announce agreement to merge majority of Macmillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media
Joint venture will create a leading publishing group with c. EUR 1.5 billion turnover and 13,000 employees
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Source: News from STM - January 19, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: admin Source Type: news
AAP Statement on OSTP Deadline for Federal Agencies’ Public Access Plans
August 22, 2013 – Today marks the deadline for US federal agencies with $100+ million in R&D expenditures to submit their plans to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) outlining how they will expand public access to the output of the research they fund. The submissions are being made pursuant to the OSTP directive issued February 22, 2013.
In response to the directive, a number of publishing organizations are collaboratively developing the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS), with support from the Association of American Publishers. CHORUS is a public-privat...
Source: News from STM - August 23, 2013 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: admin Source Type: news
AAP Statement on OSTP Deadline for Federal Agencies’ Public Access Plans
August 22, 2013 – Today marks the deadline for US federal agencies with $100+ million in R&D expenditures to submit their plans to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) outlining how they will expand public access to the output of the research they fund. The submissions are being made pursuant to the OSTP directive issued February 22, 2013.
In response to the directive, a number of publishing organizations are collaboratively developing the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS), with support from the Association of American Publishers. CHORUS is a public-privat...
Source: News from STM - August 23, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: admin Source Type: news
AAP Statement on OSTP Deadline for Federal Agencies ’ Public Access Plans
August 22, 2013 – Today marks the deadline for US federal agencies with $100+ million in R&D expenditures to submit their plans to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) outlining how they will expand public access to the output of the research they fund. The submissions are being made pursuant to the OSTP directive issued February 22, 2013.
In response to the directive, a number of publishing organizations are collaboratively developing the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS), with support from the Association of American Publishers. CHORUS is a public-privat...
Source: News from STM - August 23, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: admin Source Type: news
