PLOS and PubGrade announce digital advertising partnership
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and PubGrade GmbH have entered into an agreement to provide PLOS with PubGrade’s integrated advertising platform: PubGrade for Publishers. PubGrade’s platform-as-a-service solution: PubGrade for Publishers provides the Public Library of Science with a fully integrated advertising platform that enables them to offer cutting-edge digital advertising campaign targeting, monitoring, reporting, as well as workflow and optimization solutions. Louise Page, Chief Innovation Officer at Public Library of Science: “During our initial 6 months of using PubGrade’s platform, we saw a signific...
Source: News from STM - February 5, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Source Type: news

IntechOpen Joins Presentations at Harvard and MIT on Open Access Books Addressing the Need for Fast Publishing with Peer Review
IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, stated its CEO/co-founder and scientist, Alex Lazinica, joined a presentation on Open Access books at Harvard and MIT, conducted by Mirena Bagur, MBA, a former course director at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, with a goal of familiarizing researchers of benefits of distributing peer-reviewed, scientific articles and providing access to scientific discovery to their colleagues worldwide. Titled “How Publishing in Open Access Books Impacts Your Research Career,” the presentations were held to familiarize researchers, stud...
Source: News from STM - February 5, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

Peking University acquires linguistics and literature eBook package from De Gruyter Mouton
Acquisition strengthens linguistics program at leading Chinese university Peking University has acquired the complete De Gruyter Mouton collection (up to and including 2017) to strengthen its growing linguistics program. The acquired collection includes 2,400 ebook titles. “We are proud that Peking University has chosen to expand its collection with the prestigious De Gruyter Mouton content and that our titles are – even if only indirectly – part of the expansion of linguistics at that renowned institution,” said Ben Ashcroft, Vice President Sales & Marketing at De Gruyter. “Peking University’s School of Fo...
Source: News from STM - January 25, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

Asia Reclaims Position as Epicenter of Global Innovation
Asia has reclaimed its standing as the epicenter for global innovation after briefly falling behind the United States in 2016, according to the 2017 Top 100 Global Innovators report issued today by Clarivate Analytics. The annual report highlights the most successful organizations in the world that are active in innovation through research and development, protection of their IP and the achievement of commercial success. It also reinforces a prevailing trend among innovative businesses of prioritizing investment in unique, enduring inventions – for which patents are successfully brought to market and enjoy greater global...
Source: News from STM - January 25, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

OpenAthens 2018 Conference: Championing the user
Federated access management specialist OpenAthens is to host a conference focused on ‘championing the user’ in March. The one-day conference at the British Library in London on Thursday, 22 March will explore the challenges around providing users with secure, simple access to a world of digital content and discuss the solutions and developments in this space. Speakers will include leading figures from across the publishing, education and research sectors including Williams Bowes, director of policy and general counsel at the Publishers Association, Torsten Reimer, head of research services at the British Library, Don T...
Source: News from STM - January 25, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Open Access Source Type: news

World Scientific Publishing partners with Enago to offer Manuscript Preparation and Author Education Services
World Scientific Publishing today announced its 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). World Scientific Publishing was founded in 1981 and has established itself as one of the leading scientific publishers in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. It releases about 600 book titles and 130+ academic journals annually in various fields. Enago is the trusted name in author services for the global research community. Since 2005, Enago w...
Source: News from STM - January 24, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

Additional 509 IntechOpen Book Chapters Accepted by BKCI
IntechOpen, the largest scientific research publisher of open access books, achieved another milestone with additional 509 chapters of its books accepted for indexing in the Book Citation Index in the Web of Science™ Core Collection (BKCI). BKCI is a part of Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) which has established itself as the world’s leading citation index. “As open access books become celebrated for their presentation of a comprehensive body of research from various authors, IntechOpen continues to lead as the predominant publisher of open access books,” said Alex Lazinica, CEO and Founder of IntechOpen. “...
Source: News from STM - January 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news

Flexible training options for newcomers to scholarly communications from ALPSP
If you are, or know, a new recruit to scholarly communications in 2018, then do consider our online training options providing an Introduction to Journals Publishing to bring you to speed with the nuances of this sector. For those able to get to London we have a full day course running in March but if you are further afield then our online training in May is a great option. Introduction to Journals Publishing, Full Day course, London This essential course covers all aspects of journals publishing and is perfect for those starting out in their career or moving into the sector. It covers everything from peer review to online...
Source: News from STM - January 18, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Training & Webinars Source Type: news

Edanz partners with Aries Systems to adopt Editorial Manager Ingest Service for its Author Path product
Edanz announced today that it is partnering with Aries Systems in adopting the Editorial Manager Ingest Service for its Author Path product (www.author-path.com). The Edanz Author Path was launched in beta last April in both English and Chinese. This partnership means authors using the Author Path, will be able to submit files and metadata associated with their manuscripts to the thousands of journals using Editorial Manager with a single click. “We’re very excited about partnering with Aries,” said Bruce D. Cummings, Chief Product Officer with Edanz. “The response by users to the beta test of ...
Source: News from STM - January 18, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news

Elsevier acquires Via Oncology, a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions for oncology professionals
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and part of RELX Group, today announced that it has acquired Via Oncology, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that provides decision support and best practices in cancer care management. A former subsidiary of UPMC, one of the nation’s leading integrated healthcare delivery and financing systems, Via Oncology helps cancer centers demonstrate the value of their care to patients, referring physicians and payers by developing and implementing clinical pathways in collaboration with its network of more than 1,500 US cancer care providers....
Source: News from STM - January 18, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

SAGE Publishing expands data offering with the purchase of Data-Planet
SAGE Publishing has today announced the purchase of Data-Planet, a statistical multidisciplinary data repository that has application in academic libraries, public libraries, government and commercial markets. Speaking of the purchase Karen Phillips, Senior Vice President Global Learning Resources, SAGE commented: “Data-Planet marks another exciting leap forward for SAGE in our data offerings to the library and research community. It transforms our data publishing, both increasing the scale of data that we offer; the range of data including global data; and the versatility of analysis that Data-Planet offers the resear...
Source: News from STM - January 18, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

De Gruyter reaches 1000th open access book milestone
At the beginning of the year, De Gruyter reached the milestone of 1000 open access books on degruyter.com. The books, primarily in English, but also in German and other European languages, have been published by De Gruyter and its imprints, and also by publishing partners – such as Transcript and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute of Contemporary History) – as a result of cooperation agreements. Highlights of recent open access books that are accessible to anyone with an internet connection include: “Golda Meir:  A Political Biography” by Miron Medzini, a former spokesman for Golda Meir “Superconductor...
Source: News from STM - January 17, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news

Joachim Flickinger appointed as the new Managing Director of S. Karger GmbH in Freiburg, Germany
Joachim Flickinger took over responsibility for S. Karger GmbH in Freiburg, Germany, as the Managing Director. Alongside his new role he will continue to serve as Director Sales & Distribution and as a member of the Management Board of S. Karger AG in Basel, Switzerland. Sibylle Gross, who had been in charge of the Freiburg office since 1993, retired at the end of 2017. As the new Managing Director in Freiburg Joachim Flickinger will be contributing his knowledge and expertise in the areas of sales and market expansion. In future, one of the goals is to better connect the Freiburg and Basel offices to leverage synergie...
Source: News from STM - January 15, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news

Digital Science launches Dimensions: next-generation research and discovery platform
Ground-breaking research information database links publications, grants, policy, data and metrics for the first time Global technology company Digital Science is proud to announce the launch of Dimensions, a new platform that aims to democratise and transform scholarly search. A collaboration between six Digital Science portfolio companies (Altmetric, Digital Science Consultancy, Figshare, Readcube, Symplectic and ÜberResearch) and more than 100 research funders and universities, Dimensions offers a better, faster way to discover, understand and analyse the global research landscape, without wasting time searching for in...
Source: News from STM - January 15, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news

Vicky Williams is appointed CEO of Emerald Publishing
– Emerald Publishing, the leading publisher of management and social sciences research established in 1967, has appointed Vicky Williams as its new CEO.   Richard Bevan, who has been CEO of Emerald Group (incorporating Emerald Publishing, Research Media, GoodPractice and Towards Maturity) since 2010, will take on the additional role of Executive Chairman of Emerald Group, with its Founder, Dr Keith Howard, stepping down as Chairman after 50 successful years. Dr Howard will remain a member of the Emerald Group Board. Vicky moving into the Emerald Publishing CEO role will allow Richard to focus on the Group at what is...
Source: News from STM - January 12, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news