New online journal The Fashion archives, which launched last week, focuses on Queensland fashion stories, past and present, by exploring heritage collections from public and private collections, large and small.

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The Elsevier Journal Finder (BETA) is a useful tool if you are looking to find journals to publish your research article. Simply insert:

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2012 has been released. Journal Citation Reports uses Web of Science citation data to evaluate and compare scholarly journals.

• More than 10,800 of the world's most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 232 disciplines
• Nearly 2,500 publishers and 83 countries represented
• 379 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor

Elsevier have launched a special issue of Computers & Graphics featuring executable papers -- a new way for researchers to explore computational elements whilst reading an article. In an executable paper, authors can embed chunks of code and data into their papers, and readers can execute that code within the research article.

Professor Carol Tenopir will visit The University of Queensland to present her report on the Journal Use and Reading Patterns Survey, conducted in 2012.

The Survey asked questions about the reading of scholarly articles from both print and electronic sources by academic staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The University of Queensland was selected as one of two Australian universities to participate in the study. The results of the study will contribute to international research on the reading of scholarly journal articles.

Access the full-text of 14 journals from the International Water Association. Direct access is available for each journal from the catalogue with the access start date.

Just launched is the new open-access scientific journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Elementa aims to facilitate scientific solutions to the challenges presented by this era of accelerated human impact on natural systems. It is committed to the rapid publication of technically sound, peer-reviewed articles that address interactions between human and natural systems and behaviors (Elementa, Feb 2013). Submission will be accepted April 2013

F1000Research (launched 2013) is an original open-access publishing program for life scientists it offers:

• Immediate publication
• Transparent peer review (post-publication)
• Full data deposition and sharing

Other service on this platform includes:

F1000Posters an open access repository of conference posters and oral presentations from across biology and medicine. F10000 claims that by depositing you poster it will:

Retraction Watch is a blog which seeks to highlight the latest scientific retractions. The blog started in August 2010 by Ivan Oransky (executive editor of Reuters Heath and teachers medical journalism a New York University) and Adam Marcus (managing editor of Anaesthesiology News).

So why a blog on retractions?