With August left behind, we are preparing for busy months ahead, with plenty of conferences and meetings, book fairs, and, of course, new products in development.

Have a look at our monthly recap and celebrate with us some of August’s best additions and the latest updates from our network.

New Journals on ScienceOpen

ScienceOpen takes pride in the diversity of its scholarly offer, featuring publishers from all parts of the world in its discovery network, which is soon nearing 90 million publications.

We welcomed the Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine on ScienceOpen in August, a journal representing the scholarly excellence published by Wits University Press, the oldest university press in South Africa. The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine collection features open access research from the School of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences in the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and from the Clinical Medicine Departments in other institutions in South Africa and internationally. The journal’s objective is to be the primary diffusion portal for Clinical Medical scientists from Southern Africa, using standards that accredit the process of scientific publication.

ScienceOpen currently supports Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine with its cutting-edge open access hosting infrastructure, fully equipped with dissemination tools and integrations that facilitate an easy and creative publishing and discovery experience online.

Explore the most recent titles in the journal collection:

• Porphyric neuropathy in black South Africans: a case series
• Evaluation of Paediatric Chest X-ray Quality in the Pneumonia Aetiology Research for Child Health (PERCH Study), a Prospective International Multicentre Study in 7 Developing Countries
• Effect of Climate Change on Health in Older Persons

With publishers from all continents, users of ScienceOpen can fully benefit from a variety of academic perspectives and scholarly viewpoints, explore recent discoveries and innovations, and get the most of all our discovery services and publishing solutions embedded in one single network.

Another new journal added to our network is the newest journal published by Emirates Scholar, the Emirati Journal of Future Medicine and Sciences. EJFMS discusses the most recent developments in biological research and healthcare provision, which will be used to meet unmet medical requirements and alter upcoming medical remedies.

EJFMS is a multidisciplinary journal covering topics of interest, including bioinformatics, medical artificial intelligence (AI), stem cell and regenerative medicine, gene editing and therapy. 

Together with EJFMS, the Emirates Scholar collection and all the featured journals have increased their number of publications in the past weeks, adding new perspectives to ScienceOpen’s content by publishing insightful open-access research in the fields of economics, policing and security studies, social studies, business, automation, and digital transformation.

Explore innovative research in the collection of the Emirates Scholar Research Center.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is another multidisciplinary, peer reviewed, international journal that joined ScienceOpen in August, focused on publishing research that covers all the fields of health sciences, with a main interest in rehabilitation sciences, disability studies, special education, psychology, and social policy.

Thanks to its collection infrastructure, ScienceOpen is providing a flexible journal landing page that will manage various issues of JHRS, supporting visibility and promotion through a wide range of metrics, an integration of different social media share buttons, and a space for research communities to share their expertise.

We invite you to follow the journal and share research relevant to your field of study. Below, you can take a glimpse at the research featured on JHRS:

• Social skills critical for success in elementary school: teachers and special educators’ perspective
• Personality traits and psychosocial adjustment in patients with limb amputation
• Measuring the impact of employment on persons with a disability as a means of improving the quality of employment outcomes

New books from AEUP members

Over the summer, we have seen how the Association of European University Presses (AEUP) collection has grown, with interaction and interest in older and newer titles constantly on the rise, and over 3000 new books and book chapters added.

In August, we were honored to welcome more AEUP members into our network, whose publications are currently featured in the book and book chapter collection.

The AEUP collection grew bigger with titles from:

• Central European University Press
• Éditions Quae
• FAU University Press
• Helsinki University Press
• Masaryk University Press
• Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Riga Technical University
• Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
• Universitaet Innsbruck – Innsbruck University Press
• Vilnius University Press
• Yerevan State University

These new exciting publishers join the AEUP collection of over 13.000 titles, where researchers can also access interesting multilingual scholarship from Amsterdam University Press, Leiden University Press, Leuven University Press, UCL Press, Universitatsverlag Göttingen, University of Westminster Press and many more to come!

Don’t forget to follow the new collection and recommend your favorite titles to your fellow peers and scholars.

Promoting power of AI ithrough smart citations

And in case you have missed it, we recently announced a new exciting collaboration with scite.ai, which implemented Scite smart citation badges for over 75 million articles on ScienceOpen.

Thanks to this new cooperation, we are now able to provide greater context around citation information for the academic community through Scite badges indicating whether those citations are supporting, contrasting, or just mentions.

The award-winning platform Scite allows researchers to drill down into citation data to evaluate scientific articles. Scite has been developed by analyzing over 35 million full-text scientific articles and currently has a database of more than 1.3 billion classified citation statements.

This collaboration will help ScienceOpen customers to increase the digital reach of their publishing programs.

Expertise in digital innovations

From citation networks, open peer review, alternative metrics, and more, ScienceOpen has been committed to creating and exposing the context of academic research since its inception. We are proud to extend our list of publishers every month and look forward to welcoming many other publishers in the upcoming weeks and months.

We are eager to hear from you and would be delighted to provide you with a consultation. Stephanie Dawson, our CEO, can be reached anytime at Stephanie.Dawson@ScienceOpen.com