Summertime Is Renewal Time! 2018 Pricing and Special Offers Are Now Available

Your 2018 renewal invoice will be arriving soon. In addition to renewing your subscriptions early and securing uninterrupted access for your users, renewal season is also an opportunity to enhance your collection with new or complementary journals. Your account representative is ready to help you renew, learn about additional titles relevant to your collection, and to advise you of special offers and discounts.

Reach out to your Sales Representative to learn more today!

Announcing Renewed, Expanded Representation with Burgundy Information Services and PCG

We have expanded subscription sales representation by Burgundy Information Services in Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey. These regions join current representation by Burgundy Information Services in the UK, Europe, Russia, and South Africa and extend the companies' cooperation through 2020.

Additionally, we have a new exclusive agreement with PCG (Publishers Communication Group) to provide subscription sales representation across India and Latin America. The three-year agreement is effective August 1, 2017.

#Vote2017 And the Winner is…Serials: Breakfast of Champions!

Thank you to all who visited us at ACRL, MLA, and SLA, to all who voted online, and to all who sent us feedback and made this another successful ToteVote campaign! Tote design is underway and finished totes will be in the mail to all who voted by mid-August.

It's not too late to claim your bag! If you didn’t get the chance to vote or see us at a conference, please reach out to request a bag today.

New Publication – Coming in 2018!

The CRISPR Journal, a new peer-reviewed bimonthly publication, is the voice of the rapidly growing CRISPR community, publishing groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, advances, and commentary on the extraordinary technology that gives scientists the power to cure disease and sculpt evolution. Contact us today for site license information.

A Year of Significant Impact Factor Growth

Every June, between the Medical and Special Library Association meetings, we anticipate “Impact Factor Day” — the day Clarivate Analytics releases the year’s impact factor results — with equal parts eager giddiness and trepidation.

This year, we were ecstatic with the results — More than 30% of our portfolio saw double-digit percentage increases in impact factors, including Thyroid with a 46% increase and new impact factor of 5.515; Journal of Neurotrauma, with a 19% increase and new impact factor of 5.19; and Soft Robotics, with a 41% increase and new impact factor of 8.649.

Critical clinical medicine titles Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, Telemedicine and e-Health and Journal of Palliative Medicine saw increases of 23%, 13%, and 10% respectively, while Journal of Endourology increased its impact factor by 8%, and Games for Health Journal solidified its position in its field with a groundbreaking 53% increase in impact factor.

Also of note is a first impact factor of 3.389 for 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.

New Open Access Titles

Systems Medicine is the new open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on interdisciplinary approaches to exploiting the power of big data by applying systems biology and network medicine. The Journal collaborates with the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the European Association for Systems Medicine (EASyM).

Theranostics and Companion Diagnostics Forum is an innovative open access journal covering the clinical and scientific advances in the merging of targeted drug therapy and diagnostics to advance personalized medicine.

Title Change

Beginning with the March 2018 issue, Journal of Caffeine Research will publish under the new title, Journal of Caffeine and Adenosine Research.

New Editorial Leadership

We are very pleased to announce that Bruce Melancon, PhD, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies. Dr. Bruce Melancon is a medicinal chemist and Managing Director of the Chemical Synthesis and Drug Discovery facility at the University of Notre Dame.

New Society Affiliation

Applied In Vitro Toxicology has been named the Official Journal of the In Vitro Toxicology Society.

Dispatches from Wendy Newsham, Director of Institutional Sales and Business Development

Online journals have evolved a great deal since the first articles went online in the mid-1990s. The first online journal was “at scale”: a thousand pages of articles (about 100 articles) each week. It launched in May 1995 — before Amazon, Facebook, or even Google — by an ingenious group at Stanford University Libraries lead by John Sack, future founder of the journal hosting platform company HighWire Press. The journal was HTML-only; a format that enabled hi-res images, cross-references, and more. In 1995, it was revolutionary for content to be available immediately rather than researchers needing to wait for the print.

In the intervening 22 years, the online journal has become a dynamic resource, flush with robust functionality designed to meet researchers’ demands to connect instantaneously with the content they need in an intuitive format. Publishers and developers devote considerable resources, often in consultation with end users and librarians, to create platforms with features and functionality that are at once sophisticated and complex, but also incredibly intuitive with content that is highly discoverable. Despite these meticulously engineered resources, there have been growing rumblings that “all we want is the content,” i.e., the PDF. On one hand, researchers on advisory groups and development panels insist that they want sites that are responsive design, they want links to references, notifications of revisions and citations, inter-journal linking, and a robust, seamless reader experience. Yet when we measure usage, it becomes fairly clear that many researchers arrive at the article, download the PDF, and leave. What?!?

I’ve often wondered, what if we went all It’s a Wonderful Life and created a world where HTML had never been… if we removed the HTML articles and posted only the PDF?

So I created a handy chart to highlight the benefits of HTML:

So why does everyone just want the PDF?
Tell me, I’m genuinely curious!