BioScientifica's publishing alliances

BioScientifica has expertise as an STM publisher in choosing its strategic direction and development priorities. As such, it carefully selects key alliances within the publishing industry to fulfil the increasingly complex needs of the communities we serve. Our key alliances are listed here.

ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society publishers).

COPE (Committee of Publication Ethics).

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources).

SimiarityCheck is a plagiarism screening service designed to help publishers verify the originality of content submitted to them for publication.

CrossRef's mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. CrossRef is also the official DOI's link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications.

EBSCO Discovery Service^TM (EDS) creates a unified, customised index of an institution's resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.

Primo^® is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.

Hinari - The HINARI Programme enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.

ISPG (Independent Scholarly Publishers Group) are a group of publishers who work with Dragonfly to promote their journals to consortia of libraries, hospitals and other organizations around the globe. ISPG host their content on HighWire Press.

KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools working group) is a joint UKSG/NISO initiative that is exploring data problems within the OpenURL supply chain.

Kudos provides a free set of tools to help authors maximize the impact of their published work.

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content.

Portico is a community-supported digital archive working to preserve e-journals, e-books and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future.

PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

PubMed Central (PMC) is the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

SIPX offers an innovative end-to-end, digital copyright service for the higher-education market.

stm is an international association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers.

The Summon^TM Web-Scale Discovery service enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full breadth of content found in library collections - from books and videos to e-resources such as articles.