Online Journal Discovery and Delivery: Working with libraries and industry intermediaries to maximise readership
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This popular course explores the technologies behind online journal delivery, and helps delegates understand the challenges faced by libraries and readers in providing, finding and reading content. As such it has a wide relevance and will provide valuable insight to those working in production, IT, editorial, sales, marketing and customer service to ensure the steps to journal discovery are seamless.
Course outcomes
* gain a business-level grounding in journal delivery technologies
* have a greater insight into customers’ technical and business requirements
* understand the role technology plays in journal deploym...
Source: News from STM - March 6, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Events Source Type: news
De Gruyter and Gorgias Press enter partnership
Gorgias Press and De Gruyter have formed an editorial and commercial partnership for Gorgias Press titles. Through this agreement, eBook versions of all Gorgias Press titles will be available on degruyter.com.
Gorgias Press has published over 3,000 titles in history, language and religious studies, with specific areas of expertise in the Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Classics, Early Christianity, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, and Syriac. Gorgias Press is based in Piscataway, NJ, USA.
The agreement includes the Gorgias Press output of 75 titles per year and a backlist of more t...
Source: News from STM - March 5, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
IOP Publishing reveals new look for Physics World
IOP Publishing has relaunched its award-winning science news website Physics World, the start of a phased development programme for the specialist publisher’s science news services that will run through the first half of 2018.
“Our key motivation throughout the relaunch project has been to make it easier for users to discover the content of most interest to them,” explained Susan Curtis, Managing Editor, Physics World (Online). “The striking new design can be enjoyed on any device you happen to be using, while improved navigation places renewed emphasis on the applied and interdisciplinary fields that are driving ...
Source: News from STM - March 2, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Source Type: news
European Geriatric Medicine journal now published by Springer
A major journal focusing on scientific and clinical research in all aspects of geriatric medicine has now become part of the extensive medicine and public health portfolio at Springer. European Geriatric Medicine was launched in 2010 and was previously published by Elsevier. The journal quickly grew to become a major publication hub for research in the field. Since the beginning of 2018, this subscription journal with open access options has been published by Springer.
In six issues per year, articles published in the journal encompass all major areas promoted through the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS). These ...
Source: News from STM - March 1, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Source Type: news
Brexit is an opportunity to forge a stronger European Research Area, according to new consultation
The European Research Area should be strengthened and broadened as part of the Brexit process, to increase scientific collaboration across member states and associated countries such as the UK, Norway and Switzerland, according to a new report from Wellcome.
The Future Partnership Project report [PDF 641KB], based on consultations with over 200 UK and European scientists and policy makers, lays out the first concrete set of recommendations of how greater scientific collaboration could be achieved after Brexit.
It recommends a Brexit deal that:
Enables the UK to influence, pay into and access European research funding, a...
Source: News from STM - February 28, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
PLOS Collaborates on Recommendations to Improve Transparency for Author Contributions
In a new report, a group convened by the US National Academy of Sciences and including a dozen journal editors reflects on authorship guidelines and recommends new ways to make author contributions more transparent.
What does it mean to be author number seven on a twenty-five–author article? Establishing transparency for each author’s role in a research study is one of the recommendations in a report (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/26/1715374115) published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a group led by Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences. The recommendation...
Source: News from STM - February 28, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial Featured Source Type: news
SpringerNature hurries 7 billion euro Frankfurt listing
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros (6.17 billion pounds)including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets, people close to the matter said.
The company, which also publishes Scientific American, is planning to announce its initial public offering (IPO) in May, with a Frankfurt listing slated to take place four weeks later, they said, adding that originally plans had been for a July listing.
Following recent market volatility, some IPO hopefuls have sped up listing plans to reduce the time lag and avoid being t...
Source: News from STM - February 26, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation
Today, Elsevier and Hypothesis are announcing a collaboration to align annotation capabilities in Elsevier’s Research Products with the emerging ecosystem of interoperable clients and services for annotation based on open standards and technologies.
Hypothesis is a nonprofit dedicated to the development of open annotation. Through its new open-source technology, academics and scientists are able to make notes on documents they are reading and share those notes with others. Elsevier is a world leading information analytics business specializing in science and health.
By working together, Elsevier and Hypothesis demonstrat...
Source: News from STM - February 21, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
Atypon ’ s Artificial Intelligence R & D Fuels Four More BioASQ Awards in Semantic Technologies
For the fifth year in a row, Atypon has placed in the widely respected International BioASQ Awards competition. Atypon’s ongoing research and development (R&D) into artificial intelligence technologies led to four awards for four different semantic technology categories in the 2017 BioASQ Challenge.
BioASQ organizes international contests in biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA) to help advance technologies that make it faster and easier for researchers to find the most relevant and actionable information from within the vast corpus of published biomedical research.
Atypon’s R&D in machine le...
Source: News from STM - February 21, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
