Wiley partners with World Scientific to offer affordable digital content in Asia
John Wiley and Sons Inc., today announced a new partnership with World Scientific Publishing, a leading international independent publisher of books and journals for the scholarly, research and professional communities. The partnership will provide access to Wiley’s library of over 8,000 digital textbooks increasing to over 9,000 including the World Scientific collection in Asia. There are 10 subject areas that include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Business, Finance and Accounting.
The strategic partnership, which commenced in March 2018, aims to boost both the quality and quantity of digi...
Source: News from STM - April 24, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
ConTech 2018 – Conference chairs announced
We are privileged to be working with an outstanding group of conference chairs who are helping us create the programme for this new and exciting event.
Our team is:-
Vincent Cassidy, Director of Academic Markets, Institution of Engineering and Technology
Paul Blake, Senior Content Designer, Department for Digital, Media, Culture & Sport
Nicky Zachariou, PhD, Data Scientist, Government digital services
Dan Pollock, Specialist in Digital Publishing, Change Management and Growth Strategy, Delta Think
Sam Herbert, Co-founder, 67 Bricks
We have already received some excellent speaker proposals for ConTech 2018. There are ju...
Source: News from STM - April 24, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Source Type: news
Cambridge University Press and Code Ocean Announce Partnership
Cambridge University Press (the Press), one of the world’s leading University Presses, has partnered with Code Ocean, a platform that enables authors of articles in Press journals to publish and share code associated with their research and readers to view and run that code from within articles.
Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility platform, enables authors to openly publish their code on the platform, thereby making it free for others to access, download and share. Sharing the code and data underlying research is an important step in demonstrating that the results presented in research articles can be reproduced....
Source: News from STM - April 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
Frontiers in Blockchain: first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to blockchain from a scientific publisher
A new collaboration between Frontiers and the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance (CCEG) Think Tank will make cutting-edge research on blockchain technologies freely available through an open-access online platform. Led by founding chief editors Professor Olinga Ta’eed, director of the CCEG, and Dr. Christopher Clack, financial computing expert and founder of the Thomson Reuters laboratory at University College London, the new Frontiers in Blockchain journal will publish peer-reviewed research on a range of topics — from cryptocurrencies for social justice to smart contracts.
Invented in 2008 for use i...
Source: News from STM - April 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
ConTech 2018 announces core themes and call for speakers
ConTech 2018 – Transforming content through data science, ai and emerging technologies
The ConTech 2018 chair team met yesterday to finalise a set of core themes and a call for speakers.
Information providers and content owners are increasingly having to address the challenges of competing in a data world, driven by machine learning, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. ConTech 2018 will help you understand how data-ready you are and what opportunities exist for you in this exciting new world. Get practical advice and learn from the content pioneers embracing this new technology – whether yo...
Source: News from STM - April 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Events Source Type: news
Digital Science Award Special Blockchain Technology Catalyst Grants
Research industry technology incubator Digital Science has announced the recipients of its Blockchain Catalyst Grant. This one-off grant was made available to any project implementing Blockchain in a scholarly or scientific context, especially those that addressed the dissemination of research.
Blockchain technology has disrupted the financial sector with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum; the technology has also proved to be valuable in logistics as well as supporting the Internet of Things and other domains. Scholarly communication and open science can benefit from transparency, distributed consensus, account...
Source: News from STM - April 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Source Type: news
Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme and ResearchGate announce new cooperation to make it easier to navigate the legal sharing of academic journal articles
In a cooperation agreement announced today, three publishers and ResearchGate will work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform in a way that protects the rights of authors and publishers. The agreement ultimately involves publishers who want to help and support content sharing and believe that working with ResearchGate, the largest professional network for scientists and academics, is one of the important means to achieving this.
As part of the agreement:
ResearchGate and publishers will cooperate in educating users about their rights in relation to copyright-protected content by provi...
Source: News from STM - April 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
STM Course – Elementary course in journal publishing – Europe
The Elementary Course in Journal Publishing is aimed at those who have recently started their career in journal publishing or who are considering a career within the industry. Their experience may be in editorial, sales, marketing or content management roles, but the course will also be valuable to people working in other roles such as finance, web publishing and technology, or customer service. Experience has shown that participants at the start of their careers can benefit tremendously.
Scope of the course
Intensive, interactive lectures will be provided on all aspects of journal publishing. From the history of scholarly...
Source: News from STM - April 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Events Source Type: news
De Gruyter extends its reach in Hungary
The Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ), and De Gruyter have signed an agreement to provide access to De Gruyter journal collections to the consortium, which also provides authors affiliated to the subscribing institutions with an open access publishing option in both hybrid and “gold” De Gruyter open access journals with no further costs.
The subscribing institutions in 2018 are Eötvös Loránd University, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Lutheran Theological University, the Pentecostal Theol...
Source: News from STM - April 17, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Karger Publishers has acquired Health Press Ltd to strengthen its clinical decision support business.
Karger Publishers acquired the information service Health Press Ltd, Abingdon/UK in a move to strengthen its clinical decision support business. This acquisition complements Karger’s German-based activities in translating knowledge from scientific research to clinical practice. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Health Press Ltd is an award-winning, multi-platform information service for the medical community, providing premium content to improve medical practice. Founded by Sarah Redston in 1993, Health Press has since established three brands: the medical handbook series Fast Facts, illustrated gu...
Source: News from STM - April 11, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Clarivate Analytics Acquires Research Startup Kopernio to Accelerate Pace of Scientific Innovation
Clarivate Analytics today announced the strategic acquisition of AI-technology startup Kopernio, to create the definitive publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide. Kopernio’s vision is to legally provide one-click access to millions of journal articles and academic research papers across the globe, dramatically improving and facilitating access to scientific knowledge.
This acquisition will address a well-documented issue in the discovery and access of scientific and academic research today, which stems from the circuitous, time-consum...
Source: News from STM - April 11, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Wageningen Academic Publishers Partners with Enago to Provide Author Support Services
Enago, a global leader in manuscript editing and publication support services, recently announced collaboration with Wageningen Academic Publishers, an independent publisher, renowned for its work in the life sciences.
Wageningen Academic Publishers specializations include animal and veterinary sciences, food sciences, environmental science, agriculture and agribusiness. They publish six journals dedicated to niche subject areas as well as scientific books. Their lean and agile team structure enables them to devote focused attention to each project they undertake, working closely with authors throughout the publishing proc...
Source: News from STM - April 11, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
IntechOpen Announces VP of Customer Care
IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, announced today that Alex Christoforou will join the company as Vice President, Customer Care. Christoforou will join IntechOpen in May, with over a decade of customer service experience in the publishing industry, most recently at Springer Nature.
“As we further grow our London headquarters, we are constantly looking for talented people with industry experience and belief in open access scientific research,” said Alex Lazinica, IntechOpen’s co-founder and CEO. “Alex brings to us international account management skills and the know-how in addre...
Source: News from STM - April 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: World Source Type: news
LM Information Delivery partners with OpenAthens to enhance offering for library clients
Federated access management specialist OpenAthens has partnered with LM Information Delivery, one of the leading global providers of subscription and information management services for libraries, to enhance its offering to thousands of library clients.
LM Information Delivery will be selling OpenAthens’ identity management software which assists organisations such as libraries, academic institutions and other information managers in creating effective authentication for their end users from a central directory.
OpenAthens connects with the relevant directories to set up the login details and create a single sign-on,...
Source: News from STM - April 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Source Type: news
De Gruyter and Iberoamericana Vervuert enter commercial partnership
Iberoamericana Vervuert and De Gruyter have entered a commercial partnership for eBooks. The partnership allows for more than 1,500 front and backlist Iberoamericana Vervuert titles to be sold in conjunction with De Gruyter’s significant Romance Studies publishing program and creates an eBook collection for Romance Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies of over 3,000 titles.
Iberoamericana Vervuert has dual headquarters in Frankfurt and Madrid and is one of the leading scholarly publishers in Spanish and Latin American Studies. Approximately 75 new titles are published each year on the history, literature, art and l...
Source: News from STM - April 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
