Springer Nature expands Management Board with the creation of Chief Commercial Officer role
Senior publishing executive Frank Vrancken Peeters is to join Springer Nature as Chief Commercial Officer on September 4th. This newly created Management Board level appointment has been established to support the future growth and strategy of the group. Frank will report in the short term to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Derk Haank and then from October 1st, he will report to the new CEO of Springer Nature, Daniel Ropers.
Frank has spent more than twenty years in academic, educational and professional publishing in a range of senior commercial roles. He will join Springer Nature from Wolters Kluwer where he is currently R...
Source: News from STM - August 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
BMC Medicine becomes the first clinical research journal to accept Registered Reports
BMC Medicine has become the world’s first clinical research journal to accept Registered Reports, enabling researchers to take a proactive approach towards improving transparency and reproducibility in science.
The Registered Reports format is supported by the Center for Open Science (COS) and aims to minimise bias by allowing authors to submit their rationale and methods for peer-review before any experiments are conducted. Articles that pass peer-review will be accepted-in-principle meaning that, as long as the study is completed in accordance with the pre-registered methodology, the article will be published following...
Source: News from STM - August 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Altmetric Badges Now Available on EuroIntervention Journal
Europa Digital & Publishing, a branch of The Europa Group, announced today that it has integrated Altmetric badges — dynamic visualisations that provide an at-a-glance summary of the attention relating to published research — to the article pages of the EuroIntervention journal.
Official journal of euroPCR, the World-Leading Course in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine, and of the EAPCI, the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions, a sub-speciality branch of the European Society of Cardiology, the journal publishes over 400 articles a year focused on high quality research and educatio...
Source: News from STM - August 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
ChemRxiv ™ Beta open for submissions and powered by Figshare
ChemRxiv, a new chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, is now available in a fully functioning Beta version for use and feedback by researchers. The Beta launch has been undertaken with initial strategic input from the American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry, German Chemical Society and other not-for profit organizations, as well as other scientific publishers and preprint services. The free-of-charge service, originally announced late last year, is managed on behalf of the chemical science community by ACS and is powered by Figshare, an online digital repository for academic rese...
Source: News from STM - August 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Nature Index points industry to institutions providing ideas behind inventions
The Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement, published today, sheds new light on the impact academic research is having on innovation by examining how research articles are cited in third party patents.
By looking at patents owned by third parties – informed by and citing academic work – rather than those held by institutions themselves, the influence of research on the development of products and services is exposed.
The supplement’s tables contain some of the key academic players whose ideas may shape tomorrow’s inventions. The top of these tables are occupied by both institutions with global reputations for hi...
Source: News from STM - August 10, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
SLA Europe becomes London Info International 2017 Association Partner
London Info International has today announced that SLA Europe is to be an Association partner. SLA Europe will have a stand in the exhibition and all current members will be entitled to special discounts to attend the two-day conference.
“We are delighted to have SLA Europe members join us in London in December. Our conference programme was announced just last week and is getting very strong feedback and we are delighted with the early uptake. We sincerely hope the Association member pricing makes attending our event an ever more attractive prospect for SLA Europe members.” Said Clive Snell, Director LII 2017.
SLA Euro...
Source: News from STM - August 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Events Source Type: news
SSRN launches ChemRN – a new network dedicated to chemistry
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, announces SSRN, its world leading working paper repository and preprint server, today launches the Chemistry Research Network – ChemRN.
The launch of ChemRN follows hot on the heels of the BioRN launch in June 2017, SSRN’s new network dedicated to biology and its first outside the social sciences. BioRN already has nearly 5,000 papers live from approximately 6,500 authors.
Gregg Gordon, Managing Director of SSRN, said: “The launch of ChemRN is part of our strategy to extend the expertise and knowledge we have in building community driven...
Source: News from STM - August 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
The Spotify of the textbook world takes off as Bibliotech is go
As libraries look to widen access to core texts, how can they make this affordable to both universities and students?
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Social mobility of students is a topic that rarely leaves the education headlines, with tuition fees and accommodation costs at the top of the list. Less topical, but of real importance to students’ day-to-day learning, is whether or not they have access to digital resources.
Bibliotech, coined by its founders as ‘the Spotify of textbooks’, has been selected as a preferred e-textbook supplier in the UK. A shortlisted entrant in our edtech startup compe...
Source: News from STM - August 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Libraries Source Type: news
LII Announce Conference Programme: Uncertainty, Brexit, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Fake news
Uncertainty, Brexit, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Fake news…….
Introducing the London Info International 2017 Conference Programme.
Welcome to the second annual London Info International Conference Programme. In this, our main programme, we’re excited to be announcing a diverse set of speakers to discuss and debate the most important and pertinent topics affecting us in the information industry.
This year our programme focuses on the changes affecting industries globally: uncertainty, Brexit, AI, cyber security and fake news – just a few of the hot issues our speakers will debate. It’s increasi...
Source: News from STM - August 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Featured Source Type: news
Enago and Thieme partner to Empower Researchers to Achieve Publication Goals
Enago, an internationally trusted name in author services for the global research community, has recently concluded an agreement with Thieme, the award-winning international medical and science publisher serving both health professionals and students for more than 125 years. This collaboration will benefit researchers hoping to improve their chances of being accepted in world class journals by assisting them in enhancing the overall quality of their submissions.
Thieme is a reputed publisher known for its high-quality standards in journal content and presentation in all of its publications. With the same focus on quality, ...
Source: News from STM - August 1, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
De Gruyter streamlines author proofing by using River Valley ’s ProofCheck system
After evaluating several competing products in 2016, De Gruyter, one of the world’s leading journal publishers, has chosen River Valley’s online proofing platform, ProofCheck.
Like many other publishers, De Gruyter had been sending authors their proofs in PDF format for annotation. Authors’ corrections would then be implemented to produce the final publication. De Gruyter was looking for a faster and more reliable system in order to minimise admin within the publication workflows of their online-only journals.
ProofCheck is the result of the application of River Valley’s thorough knowledge of the publishing market ...
Source: News from STM - July 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
New National License Agreement Provides India with Unlimited Access to the Cochrane Library
John Wiley and Sons Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) is pleased to announce that students, practitioners, researchers and patients in India will now have access to more than 7,000 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions through one-click access to the Cochrane Library. Cochrane is a leading resource in evidence-based research across areas including pregnancy, mental health, surgical procedures, and public health. Cochrane reviews provide independent high-quality evidence to aid healthcare decision making.
The collaboration between Wiley, Cochrane and the National Medical Library in India offers free access, t...
Source: News from STM - July 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Kudos named in Outsell ’s “8 to Watch” for a third consecutive year
Kudos, the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has been named as one of Outsell’s “8 to Watch” for an unprecedented third consecutive year and will present as part of the Emerging Company Growth Tank at Outsell’s Signature Event in Boston, MA this October 4-5.
Outsell, Inc. the information industry research and advisory firm, receives nominations for the Emerging Company Growth Tank from its own analysts and members of its Leadership Council, as well as from relevant incubators and venture firms. The list of 250 nominations is initially pared down to 30 promising c...
Source: News from STM - July 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Botanical Society of America and Wiley Confirm New Publishing Partnership
John Wiley and Sons Inc.,(NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) is delighted to announce its selection by the Botanical Society of America (BSA) as publishing partner for its esteemed scholarly journals, the American Journal of Botany and Applications in Plant Sciences. Founded in 1893, the BSA is a leading international professional society with over 3,000 members.
Wiley will assume publishing responsibility for the BSA’s highly regarded journals, beginning in January 2018. These titles cover the research and application of plants sciences and will be hosted on Wiley Online Library, including back file content from American Journal of B...
Source: News from STM - July 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
