UCL Press has launched its new open access megajournal
‘UCL Open’ and will start accepting academic research submissions from today
(January 31, 2019).
It is the first university megajournal providing an
open access and transparent end to end publishing model, enabling research to
be accessible to everyone.
It is being piloted with UCL Open: Environment
which focuses on environment-related research and will include contributions from life and earth sciences, as well as medical,
physical, population, engineering, and social sciences. The model is expected
to be developed and rolled out across a broad range of multidisciplinary
research subjects.
Following the launch of ‘Hogrefe Psychology’last week and thanks to ScienceOpen’s extended collaboration with the Hogrefe Publishing Group, today we are pleased to bring ‘Hogrefe Medicine’ to your attention – a Hogrefe featured collection bringing together the latest research in medicine. This collection is a diverse portfolio of highly regarded, mostly peer-reviewed, journals in German and English language in the fields of medicine. These journals are aimed at academics and clinicians in research centers, hospitals, and medical practices across the globe. Hogrefe highlights ‘Vasa – European Journal of Vascular Medicine’—the official organ of the German, Swiss, and Slovenian Societies of Angiology, and the European Society for Vascular Medicine—within the context of over 5,000 research articles in ‘Hogrefe Medicine’.
Mental health matters! As part of our extended collaboration with the Hogrefe Publishing Group, ScienceOpen now indexes 30 English and German language academic journals covering many areas of psychology and mental health. The content of these highly-regarded peer-reviewed journals is integrated in the form of the featured collection ‘Hogrefe Psychology’ into the ScienceOpen research discovery environment.
ScienceOpen and Hogrefe Publishing Group are pleased to announce an extended collaboration that integrates six new featured collections in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and health care into the ScienceOpen research discovery environment. These collections join the already featured open access article collection ‘Hogrefe OpenMind’ in psychology/psychiatry, medicine, and nursing on ScienceOpen.
Best wishes for the New Year 2019! Last
month we bid farewell to 2018 by putting our topical researcher-led collections
in focus
and organizing a prize draw for an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet for researchers reviewing any paper on
ScienceOpen in December. Today we would like to thank
everyone who participated in the drawing and are pleased to announce the
winner: Prof. Rolf Georg
Beutel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Jena,
Thüringen).
Prof. Beutel is editor of the collection ‘Coleoptera’,
a comprehensive overview of over 9,000 research articles covering this
immensely diverse group. This ScienceOpen collection goes beyond the
traditional fields of taxonomy and morphology, and integrates an increasing
number of open access records. Curated by an evolutionary biologist who
considers himself primarily a systematist, the collection covers multiple lines
of research, such as phylogeny, classification, genetics, and physiology. ‘Coleoptera’
is an indispensable tool in biodiversity research and provides an essential
reference system for studies in other fields. Evolutionary biology of
Coleoptera relates to topics such as physiological and genetic
backgrounds of feeding habits or reproductive biology, making it an exciting
group to study. This is especially true in our “age of
phylogenomics”, when rapidly growing
molecular data opens new fascinating perspectives in the research on beetles
and other organisms.
We made it! ScienceOpen reached a major milestone: 50 million article
records in 5 years of making science open! What’s more, this number is
increasing faster and faster as we index more articles. ScienceOpen’s
aggregation engine enables us to track citation genealogies and identify
similar publications from published articles, making it possible to
exponentially push the boundaries of our research discovery environment.
To mark our successful 5-year journey to 50 million records, ScienceOpen CEO Stephanie Dawson talks about the meaning of this milestone for ScienceOpen’s future and scholarly communication in general.
