STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal - Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources (JUOGR).

JUOGR will publish world-class science focusing on recent advances in knowledge and practices in the area of evaluation, development and management of unconventional resources for researchers and practicing engineers. The journal aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and field development of unconventional resources, such as tight gas, shale gas, liquid rich shales, tight oil, coalbed methane, gas hydrate, etc.

Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources will publish four volumes in 2013. It will be edited by Dr. John Yilin Wang from Pennsylvania State University, supported by a distinguished board of subject editors including leading experts in the field of petroleum geology, geophysics, and engineering.

Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) have announced the launch of Energy Materials – an online only ‘virtual journal’ covering current research on materials for energy generation and storage drawn from the Institute’s peer reviewed journals. Appearing quarterly, Energy Materials will draw together a selection of the latest research papers, and specially commissioned issues on a particular theme from Materials Research Innovations.

Energy Materials will be edited by Professor Stuart Irvine, Director of the Glyndŵr University Centre for Solar Energy Research, OpTIC Glyndŵr, and Professor Peter Flewitt, University of Bristol and Board Member, the Bristol–Oxford Nuclear Research Centre. As Chair and Vice-Chair of the Institute’s Energy Materials Group (EMG) they will select the content of each issue and direct the commissioning of material through the EMG, in collaboration with the editors of other Institute journals.

Energy Materials will launch in March with an issue focusing on photocatalyst materials, principally titanium dioxide, for hydrogen generation and other specialist applications such as sterilisation of water supplies. The virtual journal will also include an extensive range of recent research, including the papers appearing in the first energy materials issue of Materials Research Innovations.

The innovative concept of a virtual journal will highlight the output of the Institute’s extensive energy materials activities, reflecting the broad range of materials contributions within this increasingly important sector. In this respect Energy Materials will serve as a focus for the growing community with an interest in energy materials research and applications.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new quarterly, peer-reviewed journal - Energy Strategy Reviews - focusing on energy strategy, planning and decision making.

Energy Strategy Reviews stimulates the exchange of knowledge and best practice needed to optimise future energy choices. The journal highlights strategy implications of major energy system models and encourages discussion on what differentiates successful from the less successful energy mix strategies. It publishes analyses, case studies and report reviews, linking technical, scientific, and societal aspects of energy strategy.

The journal aims to spark the interest of all those concerned with developing sustainable energy solutions, including experts working in government, research organisations, academia, international agencies, NGOs, companies, and consultancies.

First papers of the journal are freely available online. The print issue will be available in March, 2012.

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Wiley-VCH, the German subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced the launch of the journal Advanced Energy Materials, a new international scientific journal dedicated to publishing high impact research in energy-related materials. The journal is the latest addition to the Advanced series. It will be handled by the Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials editorial team at Wiley-VCH.

Advanced Energy Materials is an international, interdisciplinary, English-language publication of original peer-reviewed contributions in the form of invited reviews and progress reports, full papers and rapid communications, covering all topics in research relating to energy harvesting, conversion and storage. It serves as a dedicated forum for all energy-related research, including photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors, thermoelectrics, fuel cells and superconductors.

The journal will publish an initial six issues per year in print in 2011, and electronically via Wiley Online Library, Wiley's online content platform. The first print issue will be available January 18, 2011. Individual articles will be published online as EarlyView articles prior to full issue publication, accessible through http://www.advenergymat.de. Complimentary online access is available to all institutions through 2012.

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Energy publisher Hart Energy Publishing, US, has acquired Rextag Strategies, a mapping and GIS (geographic information system) database services company, in an all-cash deal. Both firms are privately held and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Rextag acquisition adds to Hart Energy's growing content portfolio with the addition of digital GIS databases and mapping services, custom digital cartography, pipeline flow and capacity data, energy infrastructure wall maps and reference books, all covering oil, gas, and other liquid pipeline operations throughout the US.

Rextag Strategies, based in San Diego, specialises in building GIS databases and producing highly accurate maps for oil and gas pipeline operations throughout the US. Rextag publishes the Interstate Natural Gas Infrastructure Map Book and its mapping and data visualisation capabilities can be applied worldwide.

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