SAGE Publishing acquires journal portfolio from international independent publisher, Wichtig
SAGE Publishing, one of the world’s leading independent and academic publishers today announced the purchase of the full portfolio of journals from the international, independent STM publisher, Wichtig. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in SAGE’s science, technology and medical (STM) publishing program and the development of its offerings across clinical medicine and bioengineering. The first issues with SAGE will publish January 2018.
Wichtig Publishing was established in Milan, Italy, by the nephrologist Diego Brancaccio over 40 years ago, with an ambition to publish niche specialty medical journals and b...
Source: News from STM - January 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
AIP Publishing Eliminates Publication Page Charges across ALL Journals
AIP Publishing announced today the elimination of publication page charges and color charges, as of January 1, 2018, for all of the organization’s journals, including Physics of Plasmas, Review of Scientific Instruments, and 10 other prominent peer-reviewed physical science titles. The company’s decision followed an assessment of the global publishing landscape, which found that the charges represented potential barriers to some researchers, and no longer serve the AIP Publishing non-profit mission. Two prominent AIP Publishing titles, Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters, ceased levying publicat...
Source: News from STM - January 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees
The Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has granted uninterrupted access to its paywalled journals for researchers at around 200 German universities and research institutes that had refused to renew their individual subscriptions at the end of 2017.
The institutions had formed a consortium to negotiate a nationwide licence with the publisher. They sought a collective deal that would give most scientists in Germany full online access to about 2,500 journals at about half the price that individual libraries have paid in the past. But talks broke down and, by the end of 2017, no deal had been agreed. Elsevier now says that it w...
Source: News from STM - January 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Author Access to Editing and Translation Improves
Independent authors and publishers can now access expert editors, translators and proofreaders through the MyIdentifiers website thanks to a collaboration between Bowker and two member companies of Crimson International Inc.: Enago and Ulatus. Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate, is the official ISBN Agency for the U.S. Enago is an internationally trusted name in editorial services for authors in the global researcher community. Ulatus is the translation arm of Crimson Interactive providing language solutions to researchers, business owners, and information specialists.
Bowker is instrumental in connecting publishers, authors a...
Source: News from STM - January 5, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Knowledge Unlatched sees more than 20% growth for KU Select 2017
Knowledge Unlatched, the central Open Access (OA) platform, has once again demonstrated the success of its OA programmes in the Humanities and Social Sciences with KU Select 2017 growing more than 20% on the previous year.
KU is to make 300 HSS books and 15 OA journals freely available to readers around the world. In addition, its partnership with the linguistics initiative Language Science Press makes a further 90 titles OA. In total, Knowledge Unlatched has supported the unlatching of more than 1200 monographs in HSS since 2012, representing more than 10% of all titles registered in the Directory of Open Access Books (...
Source: News from STM - January 5, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
ACS Publications reaches new heights with 100 million article downloads by researchers worldwide in 2017
The American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) Publications Division achieved a major milestone in 2017, surpassing 100 million full-text journal article downloads during the calendar year. This marks a new global usage record for the 51 peer-reviewed ACS journals, which publish research in chemistry and allied fields. Along with citations and other metrics, full-text usage provides insights on a journal’s influence across the research landscape and reflects the importance of the science encompassed by its editorial scope.
The 100-millionth article download took place on Dec. 14, when a reader accessed a 2015 pee...
Source: News from STM - January 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Hasan to leave Springer Nature
Syed Hasan, President Global Sales, will be leaving Springer Nature at the end of January 2018 to take advantage of a sabbatical period and subsequently pursue new challenges outside of Springer Nature.
Since 1998, Syed has held senior management sales roles within Springer and was appointed Global President STM Sales in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed President Global Sales for the newly merged Springer Nature organisation and for the past two years has led the alignment of the sales and marketing teams at Springer Nature.
“For nearly twenty years, Syed has been a critical member of first Springer and then Springer Natu...
Source: News from STM - December 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Unrestricted Text and Data Mining with allofPLOS
Content mining, machine learning, text and data mining (TDM) and data analytics all refer to the process of obtaining information through machine-read material. Faster than a human possibly could, machine-learning approaches can analyze data, metadata and text content; find structural similarities between research problems in unrelated fields; and synthesize content from thousands of articles to suggest directions for further research explorations. In consideration of the continually expanding volume of peer-reviewed literature, the value of TDM should not be underappreciated. Text and data mining is a useful tool for deve...
Source: News from STM - December 22, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
One billion metadata facts now on Springer Nature SciGraph
SciGraph, the Linked Open Data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March 2017, now holds over one billion metadata statements about content published by Springer Nature and links to established external datasets.
The LOD platform aggregates data sources from content published across Springer Nature covering an array of subjects and scientific disciplines. Its search and navigation functionality allows users to explore the connections between bibliographic metadata statements labeled by a range of categories including author, institution, fields of study, research grants, funders, conferences, locations. Citations...
Source: News from STM - December 20, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Science Reviews 2000 joins ALPSP Collections and Aggregagent ™
Science Reviews 2000 and ACCUCOMS have signed an agreement to include Science Reviews 2000 titles in the ALPSP Collections of Aggregagent. With this inclusion, the four journals will not only be part of the ALPSP Collections, but will also be available as part of other collections in Aggregagent. Aggregagent now includes eighteen publishers with an impressive collection of over 400 journal titles and continues to grow.
ALPSP Collections are a result of a partnership to reinstate sales services as a benefit of an ALPSP membership. Members can opt to have their journals included in a series of ALPSP Collections available for...
Source: News from STM - December 18, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
De Gruyter and United Nations cooperate on open access book project
De Gruyter and the United Nations are cooperating on the publication of two open access books on mathematics. The UN promotes international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of outer space, and among its responsibilities are the UN-affiliated Regional Centers for Space Science and Technology Education (located in India, Morocco, Nigeria, Mexico/Brazil, Jordan and China). The Regional Centers are responsible for the development of skills and knowledge for university educators and research and applications scientists. To do this, they use rigorous theory, research, applications, field exercises, and pilot proje...
Source: News from STM - December 18, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Kudos celebrates latest associations to sign up to its services
Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced the latest associations to sign up for its service. The breadth of organizations represented demonstrates the growing range of regions and communities in which Kudos is being recognized as a “must have” tool for managing research dissemination and impact.
Celebrating a century of academic excellence in accounting research and education, the American Accounting Association publishes 17 world-class scholarly journals, such as The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and Issues in ...
Source: News from STM - December 12, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Altmetric announces the top 100 list for 2017
This study revealed a Dinosaur species had teeth that it lost as it aged.
Testing of an Ebola vaccine during the West African outbreak found that it was completely effective – offering hope should the virus return.
The development of an artificial womb for lambs has opened new possibilities for their application amongst humans.
Topical issues
Some key themes stood out. Scientific research, technology, humanity and environmental science continue to intersect and capture the public’s attention.
The most widely discussed research topics in 2017 were:
Medical Science (53)
Biological Science (17)
Earth and Environment...
Source: News from STM - December 12, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Explore the UK ’s scientific legacy in the Royal Society’s new digital archive
The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, is making over 330 years’ worth of high-quality, full colour images from its journals available online.
The content, which includes annotations, illustrations, and additional material between 1665 and 1996, has so far only been available to people visiting our library. Up until the 24 January 2018 the archive will be free to access.
Improved metadata means the collection is now easier to search, helping you to navigate through over 350 years of science in the making. Each article has been tagged individually by experienced indexers, capturing a wealth of informa...
Source: News from STM - December 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
Advancing Evaluation: Moving Forward with DORA
“The declaration itself remains unchanged, but our aim is to spread the word much more effectively—about DORA and, especially, about the good practices it has already helped to establish in many institutions.” – Stephen Curry
Five years ago at the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, leading cell biologists, editors and publishers dissatisfied with the near exclusive reliance on journal impact factor as the primary means of measuring success in academia began creation of what would several months later become known as the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment, or DORA....
Source: News from STM - December 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
