Info International presents a one day  
Pharma Reprints Summit

Reprints from peer-reviewed medical journals help pharma engage healthcare professionals and patients – and provide the essential clinical evidence behind marketing claims – yet their use has been in decline over many years. Is technology about to disrupt the commercial content space as it did for research information over a decade ago and what are the key implications and opportunities this creates? This one day Pharma Reprints Summit brings together the key stakeholders in the medical content and marketing space to meet and to learn from one another. Presentations from stakeholders include the following topics: What ...
Source: News from STM - February 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: World Source Type: news

Consortium “n+i” Partners with Enago to Offer Manuscript Preparation and Author Education Services
“n+i” consortium today announced its new partnership with Enago, a leading author service provider that specifically caters to the large section of the global research community for whom English is a second language (ESL). “n+i”, a not-for-profit consortium links together 50+ Graduate Engineering Schools and specialised training programmes in all areas of engineering. The “n+i” consortium represents more than 30,000 student engineers and 250 research laboratories spread over 40 cities and 18 regions of France. It is also currently the largest engineering network in France that strives to...
Source: News from STM - February 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

STM Association announce – Intensive Course in Journal Publishing, Singapore
The course is designed for people working in scholarly publishing and primarily with journals. To gain the most benefit from the course, the ideal participant will need to have at least one – three years publishing experience as junior or middle manager but others with more experience will find the course a useful refresher and an inspiration for their future career. The experience may be in editorial, sales, marketing or content management roles, but the course is also valuable for people working in other roles such as finance, web publishing and technology, or customer service. Experience has shown that participant...
Source: News from STM - February 14, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events World Source Type: news

Cambridge University Press expands partnership with AJE to include comprehensive suite of manuscript preparation service
Cambridge University Press has announced the expansion of its partnership with world-leading author services company American Journal Experts (AJE), to include a range of new manuscript preparation services. The Cambridge University Press & AJE site was launched in 2017 to offer language editing for prospective authors who are writing in English as a second language. Due to the success and high level of customer satisfaction with this service over the past year, Cambridge University Press and AJE have decided to expand the offering available to authors. In addition to language editing, authors will now be able to choos...
Source: News from STM - February 14, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

Info International presents a one day  
Pharma Reprints Summit
21st March 2018
Reprints from peer-reviewed medical journals help pharma engage healthcare professionals and patients – and provide the essential clinical evidence behind marketing claims – yet their use has been in decline over many years. Is technology about to disrupt the commercial content space as it did for research information over a decade ago and what are the key implications and opportunities this creates? This one day Pharma Reprints Summit brings together the key stakeholders in the medical content and marketing space to meet and to learn from one another. Presentations from stakeholders include the following topics: What ...
Source: News from STM - February 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Events Source Type: news

Emerald launches new Engineering, Computing & Technology portfolio
For the first time, Emerald Publishing has created an opportunity for customers to take all of the available journals that are aligned to the Engineering, Computing and Technology (ECT) fields in one comprehensive collection. Available from 2018, the ECT journal portfolio was developed through extensive research to ensure that the content is aligned to the needs and output of academic engineering and computing departments. Closely connected to industry, many titles maintain strong links to key associations and professional bodies such as the European Aeronautics Science Network (EASN), International Microelectronics Assemb...
Source: News from STM - February 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

Kudos launching new dissemination management and impact acceleration services
Research groups, departments, impact leads and units of assessment invited to join early access program. Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, is launching a new dissemination management toolkit for research groups, university departments and REF Units of Assessment. Through this new service, research groups will be able to plan, action and report on a wide range of outreach activities for key outputs and projects, helping build a broad and international audience for their work, and accelerating its impact. Kudos is offering a limited number of ...
Source: News from STM - February 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news

Wiley Displays Commitment to Research and Learning in India
John Wiley and Sons Inc, today announced that Peter Booth Wiley (Chairman Emeritus, Wiley), Matthew Kissner (Chairman of the Board, Wiley) and Vikas Gupta (Managing Director of Wiley, India), will discuss the future of research and learning in India at the 32nd International Publishers Association (IPA) Congress to be held in New Delhi from February 11 to 13, 2018.  The company’s top leaders will discuss opportunities to build science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) capacity in India. “We have been publishing books and scholarly material in India since the 1960s,” said Mr. Peter Booth Wiley, of the...
Source: News from STM - February 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

Call for Applications: “IntechOpen Women in Science 2018” Book Collection
IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, is seeking contributors for its upcoming “IntechOpen Women in Science 2018” Book Collection. The program aims to support women scientists worldwide whose academic needs include quality assurance, peer-review, fast publishing, collaboration among complementary authors, immediate exposure, and post-publishing citation reporting. “We’ve created a platform where women who make significant contributions to sciences can publish their findings in a way that gives their work immediate international exposure,” said Alex Lazinica, IntechOpen CEO, co-fo...
Source: News from STM - February 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

Back to the Future: Institute for Scientific Information Re-established Within Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced it will re-establish the prestigious Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to its Scientific and Academic Research Group. This new incarnation of the institute will be focused on the development of existing and new bibliometric and analytical approaches, fostering collaborations with partners and customers across the academic community. Annette Thomas, CEO of the Scientific and Academic Research group at Clarivate Analytics explains: “For 50 years the Institute for Scientific Inf...
Source: News from STM - February 7, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce an agreement that enables the automatic posting of research articles submitted to PLOS journals on bioRxiv, CSHL’s preprint server for the life sciences. The collaboration empowers authors to share their work on a trusted platform before peer review, accelerating the pace of biomedical research. PLOS is committed to enhancing the integrity of preprints and confidence in them as research outputs. PLOS will perform initial manuscript screening compatible with bioRxiv standards, covering scope, plagiarism, and previous publication, as wel...
Source: News from STM - February 7, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news

Manchester University Press to Migrate All Books and Journals to PubFactory in Spring 2018
Sheridan PubFactory and Manchester University Press are developing an online hosting platform that will bring together all of Manchester’s books and journals, vastly improving the accessibility and support for institutions and the user experience for readers. Simon Ross, CEO of Manchester University Press said: “PubFactory services and technology will allow Manchester University Press to directly control and manage the growth of our publishing program. They understand the needs of both our books and journals and can fully support a smaller publisher that by necessity needs thoughtful, creative solutions that are cost e...
Source: News from STM - February 6, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

Academic Software “Kopernio” Receives Funding from Innovate UK to Accelerate OneClick Journal Article Access
Millions of academic research articles now available with one click for researchers, scientists, and students Kopernio to expand coverage to additional universities and academic institutions We are proud to announce that Kopernio ( http://www.kopernio.com ) has received funding and additional support from Innovate UK, the UK Government’s innovation agency, to accelerate the development of Kopernio’s oneclick journal article access technology to simplify more than 2.4bn research article downloads per year. Innovate UK will provide financial support to extend Kopernio’s institutional coverage, and enhance Kopernio’s ...
Source: News from STM - February 6, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news

New National License Agreement Provides Brazil with Unlimited Access to the Cochrane Library
John Wiley and Sons Inc. today announced a new license agreement with the country of Brazil that provides unlimited access to the Cochrane Library. From academics to clinicians to patients, the two-year agreement provides one-click access to 7,000 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions to more than 207 million Brazilians. The access was possible due to the contract signed by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES in Portuguese) and Wiley. CAPES offers a tool for accessing and sharing scientific information called the Portal de Periódicos—a virtual library...
Source: News from STM - February 6, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news