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31 July 2014

Frontiers launches new open-access medical journal - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, a new open-access medical journal. The journal will publish peer-reviewed articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease that help to advance medical education and to improve clinical practice and patient care. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press set to publish International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology as a fully open-access journal Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its new relationship with the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). Beginning in 2015, OUP and CINP will partner to publish International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (IJNP) as a fully open-access journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wellcome Library and Jisc announce partners in 19th century medical collections digitisation project The Wellcome Library and Jisc have announced nine partner institutions whose holdings will be digitised and added to the UK Medical Heritage Library, an online resource for the history of medicine and related sciences. Six university libraries have joined the partnership – UCL (University College London), University of Leeds, University of Glasgow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Kings College London and University of Bristol – along with the libraries of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Journals from IOP Publishing show Impact Factor growth The 2013 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, once again show growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP). This year, more than half of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 25 titles have had an increase of over 5 percent and 28 percent of IOP's journals have Impact Factors above 2.000. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme F1000Research brings static research figures to life F1000Research has published a new research from Bjorn Brembs, professor of neurogenetics at the Institute of Zoology, Universitaet Regensburg, in Germany, with a proof-of-concept figure allowing readers and reviewers to run the underlying code within the online article. This represents an important leap forward for scientific publishing, by demonstrating a completely novel framework for assessing the quality of a scholarly output. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Portland Press Limited announces across-the-board increase in Impact Factors Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has announced an across-the-board increase in Impact Factors for its molecular bioscience publications. The 2013 InCites Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2014) show that Clinical Science, Biochemical Journal, Essays in Biochemistry, Biochemical Society Transactions and Bioscience Reports all received increases in their Impact Factors. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IFLA launches 2014 eLending Background Paper The eLending environment for libraries around the world continues to change at a rapid pace. In 2012, IFLA released its Background Paper on eLending, which formed the basis for the production of the IFLA Principles for Library eLending, the third revision of which was issued at the World Library & Information Congress (WLIC) in Singapore in August 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HathiTrust Research Center awarded grant from National Endowment for the Humanities The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced a new project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH awarded $324,841 for 'Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm' (HT+BW) a two-year project that begins September 1, 2014 and will conclude August 31, 2016. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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