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NEW YORK, November 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, [http://www.elsevier.com ] a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports [http://www.journals.elsevier.com/epilepsy-and-behavior-case-reports ] a new, online-only, Open Access journal devoted to the rapid publication of case reports on the behavioral aspects of seizures and epilepsy. As a sister journal to...
Male-organized symposia have only half as many women presenters as symposia organized by women Women scientists in primatology are poorly represented at symposia organized by men, but receive equal representation when symposia organizers are women or mixed groups, according to research published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lynne Isbell and colleagues from the University of California, Davis. The authors analyzed women scientists' participation at major scientific...
AMSTERDAM, November 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Providing researchers with a more effective journal evaluation Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces publication of enhanced journal metrics SNIP (Normalized Impact per Paper) and the SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) which are now available in Scopus [http://www.scopus.com ], the world's largest scholarly abstract...
AMSTERDAM, November 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FundRef aims to standardize reporting of funding sources of research Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today highlights its participation in FundRef, a collaborative pilot project between scholarly publishers and funding agencies, facilitated by CrossRef [http://www.crossref.org ]. The aim of the project is to develop...
OXFORD, England, November 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new forum for short communications of clinical research in leukemias, lymphomas, multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access, online journal, Leukemia Research Reports. Leukemia Research...
AMSTERDAM, November 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- University library introduces and promotes bibliometrics to help improve the university's research impact Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, and the University of Surrey, U.K., have signed a three-year agreement for access to Elsevier's research performance benchmarking tool SciVal Strata....
An ebook of 18 articles make the case for a radical change in scientific peer review and publishing In an editorial accompanying an ebook titled "Beyond open access: visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review," Nikolaus Kriegeskorte argues that scientists, not publishers, are in the best position to develop a fair evaluation process for scientific papers. The ebook, published today in Frontiers, compiles 18 peer-reviewed articles that lay out detailed...
AMSTERDAM, November 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announces the winners of the Algerian Senior and Early Career Researcher Awards in Chemistry. The award ceremony was held on November 8 at the Sofitel in Algiers, Algeria. The awards, sponsored by Reaxys [http://www.reaxys.com ](R), are designed to highlight and reward two generations of...
LONDON, November 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 18,000 resources available to the developing world via the HINARI, AGORA, OARE, and ARDI programs The Research4Life [http://www.research4life.org ] partners announced today that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Research4Life ( http://www.research4life.org) currently provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low...
AMSTERDAM, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - A new program aims to help postdocs stay current in their field Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of the Postdoc Free Access Program, a new initiative designed to help early career researchers who are in between research positions stay up-to-date in their field. For...
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Nature Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2007 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board with editorial decisions made by a fully-functioning in-house team. The journal covers research related to optoelectronics, laser science, imaging, communications, and other aspects of photonics. It publishes review articles, research papers, news and commentary, and research...
Nature Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1995 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board, with editorial decisions being made by an in-house team. Nature Medicine publishes research articles, reviews, news and commentary pieces. Topics include cancer, cardiovascular disease, gene therapy, immunology, vaccines, and neuroscience. Research...
Epilepsy Currents is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published bimonthly in collaboration with Allen Press since 2011. Prior to that time, the journal was published on behalf of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal was established by AES in 2001. The journal publishes commentary articles and brief topical reviews. Commentary articles are solicited from members of the board of contributing editors. Content is available free-of-charge on the...
Earth, Moon, and Planets is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1969 and published about ten times per year by Springer Science+Business Media. This publication was originally titled The Moon until 1978, when it was renamed The Moon and the Planets; Its current title was changed in 1984. The current co-editors (as of September 2012) of the journal are Giovanni B. Valsecchi (IAS-CNR, Italy) and Murthy S. Gudipati (Caltech and JPL). This journal focuses mainly on research about...
The Journal of Applied Polymer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley. As of July 2012, the editor-in-chief is Stefano Tonzani, PhD (University of Colorado, Boulder). The journal covers all applications of synthetic and renewably sourced polymers, including batteries and fuel cells, organic electronics, biomedical implants and drug delivery, coatings and packaging. It also covers composites, blends, elastomers, films and membranes, fibers, emulsions and latices,...
