London Info International 2017 publishes first draft conference programme
The London Info International draft conference programme is out now. This is our most ambitious programme to date and will get to the heart of the real issues facing today’s information professionals and providers. In the coming weeks we will be announcing a first class speaker line up and keynotes from around the world. To view the programme go to http://bit.ly/LII2017conprog
Also see our latest newsletter for up to date news on our Outsell partnership, our most recent webinar from Novartis, a brand new pre conference event from Research Information and more on the ever popular Disruptor zone. http://bit.ly/LIInewslet...
Source: News from STM - June 16, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Source Type: news
Emerald Publishing delivers best ever Impact Factor results
Emerald Publishing has received its best ever Impact Factor results in the data release of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics, with overall citations up by 41%.
In summary:
• 92% of Emerald’s Impact Factor journals have seen an increase in number of citations
• Supply Chain Management: An International Journal has become the first Emerald journal to achieve an Impact Factor of over 4.000
• Average 28% like-for-like increase on Impact Factors vs 2015
• 73% of Emerald titles have achieved higher Impact Factors
• Additional top performing titles with Impact Factors over 3.000 include ...
Source: News from STM - June 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
Peer Review Evaluation (PRE) and HighWire Press partner to increase transparency for peer review
HighWire Press announces a partnership with Peer Review Evaluation (PRE) to offer turn-key integration of PRE, a transparency service from AAAS that improves the visibility of the peer review process. To mark this partnership and help publishers illustrate the integrity of their peer review process, PRE will cover any development costs for the first five HighWire publishing partners to adopt PRE in 2017. The PRE service uses an API to display details about the peer review process applied to an article when it goes live, without changing editorial workflows or requiring editorial action by using manuscript meta-data.
“T...
Source: News from STM - June 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
BMJ launches new open access paediatrics journal
BMJ Paediatrics Open adds to expanding portfolio of 60+ specialist journals
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added a new title to its expanding portfolio of more than 60 specialist journals, with the launch of BMJ Paediatrics Open.
BMJ Paediatrics Open is a fully open access, international multidisciplinary journal, dedicated to publishing original research, clinical reviews, and protocols that deal with every aspect of child health, including surgery, public health, healthcare provision and qualitative research.
It particularly welcomes research in the neglected diseases that disproportionately affect children in low...
Source: News from STM - June 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Springer Nature sponsors first Singapore Three Minute Thesis competition
PhD students from four universities in Singapore compete at Nanyang Technological University for popular science communication award
Twenty PhD candidates from Singapore will gather on 4 August 2017 at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), for the 2017 Singapore Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. The competition challenges participants to explain their research thesis in a clear and engaging three-minute talk aimed at non-specialists. The main prize, which is sponsored by Springer Nature, is EUR 2,000 to attend the Asia-Pacific 3MT® in Brisbane, Australia on 29 September 2017.
Developed by the University of Qu...
Source: News from STM - June 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Collaboration is essential for the Future of the Academic Book, finds Academic Book of the Future Report
Tuesday 13 June 2017: Two major new reports published today demonstrate that the future of the academic book is at a crossroads with the number of new book proposals growing rapidly but sales per title continuing to fall. Researchers on the Academic Book of the Future project are recommending that academics and publishers work together to develop a new vision for the sector that embraces technology and focuses on enhancing the readers experience.
The findings of the two-year research initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in collaboration with The British Library, and led by Dr Samantha Rayner (UC...
Source: News from STM - June 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Taylor & Francis partners with The Conversation Africa to boost engagement with African research
Taylor & Francis and The Conversation Africa announce a new partnership to facilitate African researchers increasing public engagement with their work and expertise. By acting as Funding Partner, Taylor & Francis will work with The Conversation Africa to highlight essential African research and offer T&F authors, journal editors, and publishing partners closer links with the African news website.
The Conversation is an international network of news websites, addressing the news agenda from an academic perspective. TC-Africa was established in 2015, joining Conversation websites in Australia, the UK, France and ...
Source: News from STM - June 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
SSRN launches a new network dedicated to biology – BioRN
Elsevier, a global information analytics company specializing in science and health, announces SSRN, its world leading working paper repository and preprint server, today launches the Biology Research Network – BioRN.
Biology researchers can post preprints and working papers on BioRN, share ideas and other early stage research, and collaborate. It allows users to quickly upload and read abstracts and full text papers, free of charge.
Gregg Gordon, Managing Director of SSRN, said: “The response to BioRN after several weeks of testing has been spectacular. SSRN is in a unique position to serve the biology research comm...
Source: News from STM - June 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: admin Source Type: news
New ALPSP seminar – How to Survive (and Thrive) in the Digital Universe
Wednesday 05 July 2017, London, Full Day
#alpspdigital
The pace of change in scholarly communication technology is accelerating and reshaping research communication. How do we make sense of these changes as a publisher? What are the things that we need to do now and how can we learn from the past? Join our chair, Phill Jones, Director of Publisher Innovation, Digital Science, keynote speaker Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology, Imperial College London and other expert speakers and panellists to discuss and, hopefully, find answers to these issues.
This full day seminar has a packed programme including panel disc...
Source: News from STM - June 7, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Source Type: news
IOP Publishing launches Remarq ™ pilot on a number of journals
RedLink is pleased to announce a pilot of Remarq™ on several IOP Publishing journals, including the Journal of Optics, the New Journal of Physics, Nanotechnology, and Biofabrication. Remarq is a new tool for the publishing community offering annotation, commenting, article sharing, and collaboration, all on the publisher’s site and utilizing the version of record.
Remarq keeps researchers and readers on publisher-branded sites by providing a powerful and smoothly integrated set of tools that support authors, editors, and users. By supporting engagement on the version of record, Remarq offers the opportunity to levera...
Source: News from STM - June 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Clarivate Analytics acquires market leader Publons, creating the definitive publisher-independent platform for accelerating research through peer review
Clarivate Analytics today announced the acquisition of Publons and its leading global platform for researchers to share, discuss and receive recognition for peer review and editing of academic research. The acquisition brings together the world’s preeminent citation database and the world’s largest researcher-facing peer-review data and recognition platform.
“Clarivate Analytics is investing aggressively to enhance existing analytics, insights and workflow optimization solutions, and to identify new ways to help our customers accelerate innovation,” said Jay Nadler, CEO of Clarivate Analytics. ̶...
Source: News from STM - June 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Charlesworth Author Services to partner with AIP Publishing
Charlesworth Author Services, a division of The Charlesworth Group, is delighted to announce a new partnership with AIP Publishing to provide language editing and publication support services, further strengthening the leading physical science publisher’s offering to authors.
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), will offer a suite of expanded services to authors, including English language editing, translation services, figure correction, and re-drawing.
The suite will include a dedicated website and workflow environment, built by Charlesworth Author Services to supp...
Source: News from STM - May 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
