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Read Knowledgespeak's interview with Ziyad Marar, Global Publishing Director, SAGE

3 July 2012

Columbia University, Thomson Reuters launch data visualisation project Columbia University and Thomson Reuters have launched the Advanced Data Visualization Project (ADVP). The project will explore data visualisation applications in various fields including journalism, science, medicine and public health, law, architecture, planning and political science. It will utilise experts from the University and Thomson Reuters. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Open Access option now available in more than 80 percent of Wiley journals Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that its open access option for individual journal articles, OnlineOpen, will be available to authors in 81 percent of the journals it publishes. OnlineOpen gives authors the option to publish an open access paper in their journal of choice where it will benefit from maximum impact. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme FIZ Karlsruhe to showcase zbMATH database and EuDML project at Mathematics event FIZ Karlsruhe will be present in various respects at the 6th European Congress on Mathematics in Kraków from July 2-7. Olaf Teschke of FIZ Karlsruhe will hold a lecture on how the European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML) and the Zentralblatt MATH database (zbMATH) complement each other. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Lippincott Williams & Wilkins reports significant gains in 2011 impact factor rankings Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced exceptional gains across 193 journals in its portfolio with the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters). Overall, 57 percent of LWW journals had gains over the previous year, with 26 titles increasing 25 percent or more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OA survey findings on the evolving role of the librarian towards OA business model in scholarly publishing Open Access publisher InTech has published the results of a survey appraising attitudes and awareness of the library community towards the Open Access (OA) business model in scholarly publishing. 211 librarians participated in the survey with 156 completing all questions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RSC Publishing reports continued growth in impact factor journals The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio once again improved its Impact Factors following publication of the 2011 results. Last year the RSC published four times as many articles as it did in 2006 meaning a rise in quantity has gone hand in hand with a rise in quality overall. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cambridge University Press waives author charges for new OA mathematics journals Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP) has announced the launch of two new open access (OA) journals in mathematics - Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. For the first three years CUP will waive publication charges, though authors with access to specific funds for OA publication will be encouraged to pay a low charge of £500/$750. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Transfer launches new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service Transfer, the UKSG-sponsored initiative to create a Code of Practice to follow when journals are transferred between publishers, has announced the release of its Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS). ETAS is a rapid alerting service that will allow publishers involved in a journal transfer to notify the various stakeholders by providing a standardised set of information relating to the exchange. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Knowledgespeak Exclusive An interview with Ziyad Marar(Twitter: @ZiyadMarar), Global Publishing Director, SAGE Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 4, 2012, on account of the 'Independence Day' holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, July 05, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 3rd issue.

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