DOAJ announces new selection criteria
13 June 2013
The Directory of Open Access Journals has announced more stringent selection criteria
Publishing news
DeepDyve launches 'five-minute freemium' service
6 June 2013
DeepDyve, which provides online rental of scholarly and professional research articles, has announced a new 'freemium' offering that allows users to preview the full text of any article for free for five minutes per day
Peerage of Science picks up Finnish award
6 June 2013
Peerage of Science has won this year's Communications Professionals of Finnish Universities annual recognition award
Submission requirement aims to boost social-media engagement
5 June 2013
Last year the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution began asking authors to include tweetable abstracts in their submissions. The journal's assistant editor Samantha Ponton explains why and how the journal went about it
Peer-review debate should include software
3 June 2013
Richard Padley argues the case for scrutinising software submitted with scholarly articles within the peer-review process
Open Book Publishers wins IFLA/Brill open-access award
31 May 2013
Open Book Publishers of Cambridge, UK has won the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award for its initiatives in open-access monograph publishing
GeoScienceWorld picks HighWire for e-books platform
30 May 2013
GeoScienceWorld's new, integrated e-books platform will be built on the HighWire Open Platform
DataSalon launches data-quality initiative
22 May 2013
DataSalon has announced what it describes as 'a major new data-quality initiative targeted at the needs of scholarly publishers'
Semantico launches new journals platform for Now Publishers
22 May 2013
Semantico has developed a new journals platform for Now Publishers
Wiley tries out alternative metrics
22 May 2013
Wiley has launched a six-month trial of Altmetric on several of its subscription and open-access titles
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