New Publishers and Titles on Ingenta
A big welcome to the following publishers who have recently signed with Ingenta, as well as those who have gone live on our service. We'll keep you posted in coming issues as additional content goes live.American Society for Plant Taxonomists
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
MTT Agrifood Research Finland
MTT Agrifood Research Finland is an expert body operating under the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. They produce and disseminate scientific research information, and develop and promote the transfer of new technology for the agriculture and food sector as a whole. Their journal, Agricultural and Food Science in Finland, to be renamed Agriculture and Food Science in 2004, will be available via Ingenta.
Rural Sociology Society
The Rural Sociology Society is a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The Society seeks to enhance the quality of rural life, communities and the environment.
Whurr Publishers (recently re-joined the Ingenta service)
Whurr Publishers will be placing two journals on Ingenta in 2004: -Cochlear Implants International and -International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.
Recently live on Ingenta:
The Cartography and Geographic Information Society
Located in Maryland, USA, the CaGIS now offers current issues of its journal, Cartography and Geographic Information Science in electronic full-text at Ingenta. The CaGIS journal is widely recognized as a reputable subscription-based research and reference tool in the field of cartography, geography, and GIS. The online journal will be fully indexed and cross-searchable, and legacy issues, dating back to 1974 will be added annually.
To request subscription information, please email CaGIS Subscriber Services at pubsvc@tsp.sheridan.com. If you hold a current institutional subscription, begin accessing this journal now. Access to this title is also available on a pay-per-view basis.
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Information (INASP)
In an initiative to increase their visibility worldwide, and encourage communication between international researchers, INASP has supported putting four African journals online with Ingenta. These full-text titles include:
-The Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia
-Insect Science and its Application
-SINET
-Zimbabwe Veterinary Journal
For more information about INASP, please visit www.inasp.org.uk.
International Phenomenological Society
The following title is now live:
-Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown University, where it has been edited first by Roderick Chisholm and then, since 1983, by Ernest Sosa. From its founding, the journal has been open to a variety of methodologies and traditions.
oekom Verlag
Founded in 1990 oekom Verlag is an established publishing house based in Munich, Germany specialising in publications concerned with sustainable development in science, politics and society.
The following title is now live:
-GAIA – Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities and Economics
Westburn Publishers Ltd.
Westburn is an academic publisher established in 1983 specialising in marketing and related subjects.
The following titles are now live:
-Journal of Customer Behaviour
-Journal of Marketing Management
-The Marketing Review
Coming soon on Ingenta:
• Cryoletters Partnership
• Lawrence and Wishart
• Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Special Publisher Content Announcements:
World Scientific
• IJBC's Impact Factor Climbs 37%:
"Now in its thirteenth year of publication, the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos is widely regarded as the leading journal in the exciting field of chaos and nonlinear science. Recent statistics show that IJBC's impact factor climbed from 0.838 in 2000 to 1.144 in 2002, placing it 11th out of 48 journals in Multidisciplinary Science and 23rd out of 156 in Applied Math. Represented by an international editorial board comprising seventy top researchers in a variety of disciplines, once again, the journal has proven itself a leader in the scientific and production quality."
• Alex Lipton Joins IJTAF Board:
"Alexander Lipton, a recent addition to the Board of Managing Editors of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJATF), is the first recipient of the prestigious 'Quant of the Year Award' by the Magazine Risk. He is widely regarded as one of the top ten in the world of mathematical finance."