Scientific American launches innovative new version of magazine
... Holtzbrinck Publishers which also owns trade book publishers St. Martin's Press and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, stressing interactivity and integrated platforms. Scientific Americans website already offers podcasts, video and blogs, as well as stand-alone articles and news, and the reengineered print version w...Scientists explore genetics and society
... Lancaster University. In collaboration with the publishers Routledge, CESAGen will also launch the 'Genetics and Society' book series during the conference....BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
...ding authors, researchers, funders, librarians and publishers to examine the value of open access publishing. Scheduled speakers include Sir Muir Gray, the Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety for England's National Health Service's Connecting for Health agency, and Robert Kiley Head of E-Strategy...Major society publisher announces support for public access to scientific literature
..., to take full advantage of this opportunity. Some publishers argue that providing free access to their journal'...it is important that nonprofit societies and other publishers generate sufficient revenues to sustain the costs of reviewing and publishing articles. We believe t...Committee review of stem-cell fraud finds editors followed all rules
...ts, or even for falsifying results, and scientific publishers therefore must develop more stringent new risk-assessment procedures for further scrutinizing high-risk papers. We are in complete agreement with the committee on this point, and we will take steps to comply promptly with the committee's recommendati...Senior academic officers oppose 'public access' legislation
...d negatively impact the academic community and the publishers that disseminate their work. In signing the le...e public by society publishers." The nonprofit publishers comprising the DC Principles Coalition ( http://www.DCPrinciples.org ) are among those who are able ...Grants will give developing world access to scientific research
...nd the great generosity of many leading scientific publishers and foundations, we now have an unprecedented oppo...ization, Cornell University and leading scientific publishers around the world. Yale will create software for OARE's secure internet portal, organize and update i...Setting the standard for computer models of life
...ple the microarray community, by enabling authors, publishers and data providers to work together to improve access to meaningful biological information."...New study weighs impact of open access on scholarly journals
...arious open-access approaches, both by traditional publishers and new entrants into the field. It noted the extent to which traditional publishers have been experimenting with open access approaches, such as offering articles freely to all after a...Chemical Biology & Drug Design. A new face, a new title, a new vision
...begins this new adventure with the leading society publishers Blackwell Publishing, Tomi's vision is well-articulated in his own words: "Unquestionably, my career in drug discovery is reflected by a pursuit of smart chemistry tackling complex biology by way of inventive drug design. It is such a quest for know...Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication
...005 WHERE: Chicago Every four years, editors and publishers from the leading biomedical and scientific journals from around the world gather to examine important issues concerning peer review and biomedical publication. At this year's Congress, new research will be released and discussed on the topics of: ...A new way to share models of biological systems
...ftware. "Ultimately," says Le Novre, "we hope that publishers will encourage any author who plans to publish a new model to submit it to the BioModels database; this will ensure that all the models in the public domain are freely available for everyone to make the most of them."...BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy
...blishing with most of the traditional subscription publishers will be expected to go through a process of resubm...ges introduced in the publication process, as many publishers specify that only the author's version of the manuscript can be submitted to archives. Those who cho...Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity
...ssignments," according to the NIH statement. These publishers believe that NIH should take advantage of the fact that most not-for-profit publishers currently make all their content--not just NIH supported articles--available for free to the public ...Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells
...n online resource on the science of aging from the publishers of the journal Science . "There may be a previously undiscovered pocket of primitive stem cells in the spleen that are important for healing several types of damage or injury," says Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Immunobiology Labora......e and honor individuals (rather than institutions, publishers or employers) for their coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics. To ensure the utmost objectivity and the highest possible standards of integrity, all entries are assessed by independent screening and judging panels, explained Weisman, ...