The Geological Society of America Launches New Publications Portal on the Silverchair Platform
Silverchair Information Systems and the Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA), in partnership with GeoScienceWorld (GSW), today announced the launch of the fully integrated GSA publications portal on the Silverchair Platform for GSA’s journals and ebooks. This migration occurs in conjunction with GSW’s newly expanded Society Services program.
The new portal includes four leading journals in the geosciences space, as well as a revamped books platform with over 900 ebooks. GSA’s journals include Geology, the #1 journal in the Web of Science’s “geology” category for eleven years in a row, as well as GSA Bu...
Source: News from STM - July 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Source Type: news
Knowledge Unlatched Announces Expansion into STEM in 2018
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is happy to announce its move into the STEM publishing market. From Q1 2018 onwards, KU will accept submissions—both books and journals—in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This will form a new KU Select collection to be offered for pledging in mid-2018.
Open Access in STEM subject areas offers growth opportunities for KU’s cooperative model. Publishers are looking to expand their Open Access portfolio, for which KU provides the optimal solution. The company’s platform helps both publishers and librarians to easily navigate submission and pledging processes. T...
Source: News from STM - July 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Ingram Expands UK Footprint with Book Network Int ’l Limited Acquisition
Ingram Publisher Services LLC, an operating unit of Ingram Content Group, has acquired Book Network Int’l Limited (“NBNi”); an international physical and digital book distributor, based in the UK. NBNi’s client service business will stand alongside Ingram’s wide range of digital, physical and print-on-demand solutions to create a premier global services offering.
“NBNi is a sound, established and widely respected distributor in the British book trade with a reputable base of publisher clients, well-supported by the excellent and experienced team in Plymouth. Our plan is to build on this strong foundation and ...
Source: News from STM - July 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Source Type: news
Taylor & Francis and Macat sign sales and distribution agreement
Taylor & Francis and Macat International are pleased to announce an agreement under which Taylor & Francis will undertake exclusive sales and distribution for the Macat Library in the English language.
Macat International is focused on developing resources for critical thinking alongside tests which measure critical thinking skills. Its library currently consists of 180 analyses of the world’s great non-fiction works and is available in print, eBook, audiobook, and interactive formats. It is expected that the library will double in size by 2020.
Speaking about the arrangement, Mark Anderson, the CEO of Macat ...
Source: News from STM - July 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Scott Wilson joins HighWire Press as Vice President, Global Sales
HighWire Press, Inc., the leading technology platform and strategic partner to world-leading scholarly publishers and societies, announces the appointment of Scott Wilson as Vice President, Global Sales and member of the Executive Leadership Team.
“We are delighted to welcome Scott to HighWire,” said Dan Filby, CEO, HighWire Press. “Creating new opportunity in the scholarly and academic markets benefits from deep understanding of the needs among publishers, librarians, and end users. Scott has a significant track record of developing long term and fruitful strategic customer partnerships.”
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Source: News from STM - July 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Thieme and Schattauer launch new open access journal TH Open
Thieme has joined forces with Schattauer Publishers to launch a new open access journal: TH Open. It will provide updates on the latest developments in vascular medicine, complementing Schattauer’s established subscription title Thrombosis and Haemostasis. The new open access journal will follow the PWYW (pay what you want) pricing strategy, which leaves the decision of how much the publication of an article in the new English-language journal is worth up to the author. TH Open will be officially introduced at the ISTH 2017 Congress, the global meeting in thrombosis, hemostasis and vascular biology to be held in Berl...
Source: News from STM - July 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
London Info International & Clarivate Analytics announces new webinar.
London Info International in collaboration with Clarivate Analytics announces:
Webinar : How has the concept of being “citable” evolved?
Wednesday 12th July 15.00 CEST, 14.00 BST, 9.00 EST
When the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) first released in 1975, the concept of being “citable” was introduced in the context of assessing a journal’s performance impact, specifically the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) metric. How has the concept of being ‘citable’ evolved since then?
Paul Wouters, Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Scientometrics at the University of Leiden, will provi...
Source: News from STM - July 3, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Training & Webinars Source Type: news
London Info International 2017 is looking for Info Disruptors
Are you a start-up, a publisher or vendor with new and innovative products, platforms or content?
London Info International wants to invite you to pitch your new ideas, concepts and innovations in Disruptor Zone 2017.
The Disruptor Zone will take place in London on 5th and 6th December as part of LII 2017. This is a competitive event that takes place within our open conference stream and on the showfloor and will be accessible for all LII attendees and conference delegates.
Disruptor 2016 was won by Nexgen Healthcare. Here’s what they had to say:-
“Nexgen Healthcare Communications attended London Info International in ...
Source: News from STM - June 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Source Type: news
American Chemical Society files suit against Sci-Hub
On June 23, 2017, the American Chemical Society (ACS) filed suit in the United States District Court Eastern District of Virginia against unnamed confederates of Sci-Hub, a self-proclaimed web pirate organization that steals and then illegally reproduces and disseminates copyrighted scientific research articles on the internet. The suit asserts infringement of the professional Society’s copyrights, as well as counterfeiting and infringement of its trademarks.
“ACS discovered that in order to lure users to its illegitimate sources of the Society’s stolen content, Sci-Hub conspirators most recently created ...
Source: News from STM - June 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing – Shortlist Announcement
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers is delighted to announce the shortlist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2017.
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Chair of the judging panel, David Sommer, noted ‘With over 40 submissions addressing a diverse range of areas from the peer review process, to funding analysis and accessibility issues for developing world authors, judging has been particularly tricky this year. We believe that the finalists...
Source: News from STM - June 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: World Source Type: news
Policy Press Publisher partners with Enago to offer Manuscript Preparation Services
Policy Press announced today their 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).
Policy Press was founded in 1996 as an academic publisher based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol, UK. It specializes in the social sciences and aims to improve social conditions with publications that make a positive difference to learning and research, policy, and practice. It publishes a variety of products, including textbooks, academic journals, and monographs.
Enago i...
Source: News from STM - June 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial World Source Type: news
Derk Haank, Chief Executive Officer to retire and to be succeeded by Daniel Ropers
Derk Haank is to retire from his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Springer Nature by the end of 2017. Derk will be succeeded by Daniel Ropers, currently CEO of bol.com, who will join Springer Nature on October 1 and work with Derk until December to ensure a smooth transition.
Derk has thirty years of experience in the academic publishing industry, almost half of which have been with Springer. He joined Springer Science+Business Media in 2004 as its CEO and drove the migration of content from print to digital, re-inventing the academic book market in the process. Throughout his career, Derk championed new busin...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
SUPC tender, Bibliotech won the supply contract for all three bids
Bibliotech is pleased to announce that it won the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) tender – confirming its status as preferred eTextbook supplier in the UK.
Bibliotech was named as one of SUPC’s recommended suppliers for all three lots in the Joint Consortia Framework Agreement – Books, E-books, Standing orders and Related Materials (Subscriptions, E-textbook access/Supplier negotiated terms with publishers for offer to institutions, E-textbook access/Third party/institution negotiated terms with publishers for access via Supplier platform).
David Sherwood, CEO at Bibliotech commented, “We’...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Knowledge Unlatched partners with LM Information Delivery to reach out to libraries in the Nordics, Spain, and South Africa
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is partnering with LM Information Delivery (LM), one of the leading global providers of subscription and information management services for libraries, to better promote its Open Access offering to institutions. Effective immediately, LM will represent KU in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, and South Africa.
“We are pleased that LM is supporting the Knowledge Unlatched team to promote Open Access for Humanities and Social Sciences monographs, journals, and services in a number of additional countries,” says Sven Fund, Managing Director of Knowledge Unlatched.
“KU is one of the most ...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Libraries Source Type: news
