Wolters Kluwer to Publish the Canadian Journal of Addiction
Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, is pleased to announce a new publishing partnership with the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM). Beginning with the December 2017 issue, Wolters Kluwer will publish the Canadian Journal of Addiction, the official journal of the CSAM, as part of its Lippincott journal portfolio.
“We are excited to embark on this collaboration with Wolters Kluwer that will allow us to leverage their expertise and global reach to build our journal brand” said Nady el-Guebaly, Editor-in-Chief. “We anticipate that...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
Clarivate Analytics partners with Impactstory to make open access content easier for researchers to use
Clarivate Analytics today announced a novel public/private strategic partnership with Impactstory that will remove a critical barrier for researchers: limited open access (OA) to high-quality, trusted peer-reviewed content. Under the terms of the partnership, Clarivate Analytics is providing a grant to Impactstory to build on its oaDOI service, making open access content more easily discoverable, and the research workflow more efficient from discovery through publishing.
The world of science publishing is complex. Researchers conducting online searches for scholarly articles frequently get unreliable results that can compr...
Source: News from STM - June 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Open Access World Source Type: news
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health to launch publishing platform with F1000
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health will become the first to launch an institute-focused publishing platform with F1000, a provider of a suite of services to support researchers, institutions and funders. The platform, UCL Child Health Open Research (https://childhealthopenresearch.org.uk), will start publishing in Q4 of 2017 and allow any UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health or any other UCL researcher studying child health to publish with greater speed and transparency.
UCL Child Health Open Research will follow in the footsteps of two funder-based platforms, Wellcome Open Research and Gates Op...
Source: News from STM - June 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
Eastern Michigan University Goes Live with Alma and Summon Integration
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that Eastern Michigan University has gone live with the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform integrated with the Ex Libris Summon® discovery service. The first library to implement this integrated solution, Eastern Michigan now benefits from improved resource management workflows and an optimized resource discovery experience. Alma replaces the Ex Libris Voyager® integrated library system while the university has retained Summon as the preferred discovery service.
Eastern Michigan’s migration to Alma and the unification of the management and discovery of p...
Source: News from STM - June 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Libraries Source Type: news
The Association of American Publishers Welcomes Major Judgment Against “Sci-Hub” Pirate Site
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomes the June 21, 2017 ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York regarding the willful infringement of scores of scholarly articles protected by copyright law. Ruling in favor of Elsevier, the publisher that brought the action, the Court entered a default judgment against Sci-Hub, the Library Genesis Project, and a number of related sites, and against the defendant operator.
The Court awarded Elsevier $15,000,000 in damages based on a representative sample of 100 infringed works and makes permanent a 2015 preliminary injunction that req...
Source: News from STM - June 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Figshare Partners With ASHA to Enhance Discoverability and Reuse of Their Research Outputs
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, today announced a new partnership with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to showcase supplementary research outputs within the communication sciences and disorders discipline.
As a professional society representing 191,500 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists, ASHA is committed to the publication of research, and has been for more than 80 years.
Research outputs published across ASHA’s peer-reviewed scholarly journals will be aggregated under one portal. Th...
Source: News from STM - June 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
ProQuest Solutions Help Libraries Reclaim Space
Over 80% of U.S. librarians have deemed space reclamation a priority or stated that it will be in the near future, according to research conducted by ProQuest. In response, ProQuest is combining content solutions with digitization, assessment and discovery services to help libraries transform spaces and bring more value to their users.
To free space …
ProQuest offers its Digital Archiving and Access Program (DAAP), a cost-effective way to digitize libraries’ native research, which can reclaim miles of shelf space and boost discovery of the content.
ProQuest curates the largest and most diverse portfolio of digital con...
Source: News from STM - June 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
The American Society of Plant Biologists launches flagship journals on HighWire Press ’s JCore platform
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) has just announced that its two flagship journals The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology, are now live on HighWire’s JCore platform. The Society is excited to be able to demonstrate the new sites at their upcoming Plant Biology 2017 annual meeting in Hawaii, which starts this Saturday 24 June.
“ASPB’s move to HighWire’s powerful JCore platform allows the Society to disseminate their rich content more effectively and dynamically,” says HighWire Press CEO, Dan Filby. “The new sites’ features, functionality, and UX design, ensure that read...
Source: News from STM - June 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
ACS titles post impressive Impact Factors
The peer-reviewed journals of the American Chemical Society (ACS) are once again the most-cited and/or most-impactful scientific journals across 14 scientific categories, including six core chemistry categories, according to the 2016 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), released on June 14, 2017, by Clarivate Analytics. (The source for 2016 JCR is the Web of ScienceTM Core Collection.) The citation-based rankings underscore the visibility and value of the broad research published within the Society’s preeminent portfolio of journals.
“Our professional society is grateful for the efforts of our many expert editors and refe...
Source: News from STM - June 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Elsevier launches PharmaPendium DMPK solution
Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, has launched the PharmaPendium DMPK (Drug Metabolism-Pharmacokinetic) solution. The DMPK solution delivers searchable pharmacokinetic, metabolizing enzymes and transporters data to provide a complete picture of potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and drug candidate risk assessment.
PharmaPendium DMPK informs preclinical and clinical risk/benefit analyses – enabling researchers to make quick evaluations of which drug candidates to progress. The DMPK solution also includes a drug-drug interaction risk calculator (DDIRC), which is compliant ...
Source: News from STM - June 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Cabells to feature Altmetric data in Journal Whitelist Analytics
Cabells, an industry leader in connecting researchers, librarians, administrators, and institutions to the journal titles they need, today announced the integration of Altmetric data into the redesigned Journal Whitelist database, which provides journal quality metrics on over 11,000 journals spanning 18 disciplines.
The data, which includes mentions of published research from sources such as news sites and social media, public policy documents, online reference managers, post-publication peer-review forums and other online platforms, is displayed in an Altmetric report on the journal’s associated metrics page.
The rep...
Source: News from STM - June 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
IET announce significant increases in impact factors across journal portfolio
Latest JCR reports show ratings have increased on average by 45%
The IET is delighted to announce that titles in its journal portfolio have seen a significant increase in their impact factor rating in the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR). On average, impact factors across all eligible titles have increased by 45%.
Of particular note are:
IET Power Electronics, which has achieved its highest ever rating of 3.547 and is in the top quartile for the Engineering, Electrical and Electronic category;
Journals IET Optoelectronics, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems and IET Biometrics, which have seen ratings grow by m...
Source: News from STM - June 20, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
