PubsHub Helps Identify Appropriate Publications

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Want to find a high impact journal to publish your paper in? Looking for author guidelines for a specific publication? Need to find information on the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America? If so, then PubsHub is the source for you!

The PubsHub database can be searched by keyword as well as browsed by congress, professional association, or journal. Browsing is simplified for users because each group is broken down into subject-specific categories. This is the ideal way to explore without a particular title in mind. The search box at the top is helpful if the publication name is known and specific information about the journal, association, or congress is desired. There is also an advanced search option that can be used to search for groups of publications, associations, or congresses instead of browsing or retrieving limited results with a simple keyword search. Continue reading →

NPG Introduces a New Way to Share Articles: What Level of Impact Will it Really Have on Researchers?

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In early December Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced a one-year pilot which will enable researchers who have individual subscriptions or access to institutional Nature subscriptions, the option to share content from these titles with their colleagues as well as those individuals who are non-subscribers via email, social media and web pages. This will be made possible with ReadCube, a software platform, that will host and display read-only versions of the articles’ PDFs. Continue reading →