Open access journal PLoS Medicine has placed in the public domain all documents – around 1,500 - released after the intervention of the journal and The New York Times in the Prempro case. The documents include internal correspondence, reports and tracking documents relating to interactions between the pharmaceutical company Wyeth and a medical communications firm, to promote Wyeth's hormone drugs. These documents are purported to show in considerable detail a coordinated and carefully monitored campaign of "ghostwriting" by Wyeth and medical writing companies for a number of products marketed by the company.

  Custom health communications company StayWell Custom Communications (SCC), a division of MediMedia USA, has announced an exclusive strategic alliance with Self Care Decisions, LLC, a provider of decision-support care guides for consumers via the Internet and mobile applications. Through this strategic alliance, StayWell Custom Communications will be offering a range of online applications for health care providers and payor organisations designed to guide consumers to the appropriate response to common health care issues.

  The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), a collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community, has announced the appointment of teams from Loughborough University and University College London (UCL) for Behavioural and Usage Research. The research teams were selected by the PEER Executive following an open tendering process and assessment by the members of the PEER Research Oversight Group.

  Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that St. Cloud Surgical Center has selected its ProVation EHR software for perioperative documentation and patient charting. ProVation EHR is an electronic health record designed for busy, cost-conscious Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs). It offers electronic documentation and document imaging for all elements of the patient encounter, from past records to procedure documentation to follow-up care.

  Publisher Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), part of Informa, will publish the Journal of Hydraulic Research and International Journal of River Basin Management on behalf of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), beginning 2010. With Taylor & Francis, the journals will see a number of improvements. These include moving the journal to Taylor & Francis' InformaWorld platform, bringing benefits including HTML versions of articles, forward citation linking and online publication of articles ahead of the print issue through iFirst.

  Anthem Media Group (AMG) has announced its acquisition of Ascend Media's Los Angeles-based medical media division for an undisclosed sum. The business-to-business publications that comprise Ascend Media's Allied Healthcare division serve as the authoritative source of information, news, product development and continuing education for professionals in the areas of medical imaging, hearing, respiratory care, physical therapy and rehab, sleep, plastic surgery, aesthetics and more.

  Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has announced a publishing partnership with the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the latter’s publications - Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR) and Primer on the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism.

  Publishing services provider Cadmus Communications, a Cenveo company, has announced that it has been awarded a two-year contract extension by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). The deal is to provide a full range of scholarly journal production services including copyediting, composition, content management, and printing for SfN's widely-acclaimed journal The Journal of Neuroscience.

  Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary has announced that 14 new publishers have joined its Half-Off Sale, bringing libraries, corporations, and other institutions the best cost savings of the year on full-text e-books. To date, more than 21 publishers have signed up to participate in ebrary’s new program including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, IGI Global, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. Others are expected to sign up shortly.

  Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) has announced four new agreements signed with European national libraries and affiliated institutions. The agreements are seen to significantly increase the coverage of records in WorldCat and the visibility of libraries in WorldCat.org within the Europe and Middle East regions. The latest agreements, in Denmark, Switzerland, Slovenia and Israel, are expected to show that libraries from around the globe are responding very positively to the opportunity that WorldCat offers to streamline workflows and increase visibility in WorldCat.org.

  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has announced a partnership with academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan to publish the journal BioSocieties, starting March 2010. Palgrave Macmillan, the academic publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, will take over publishing duties from Cambridge University Press from Volume Five in March 2010. The editorial operation of BioSocieties will continue unchanged.

  Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys has announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has launched an e-book portal using iPublishCentral, its self-service e-publishing platform. iPublishCentral enables publishers to market, distribute and monetise traditional print content through electronic channels.

  Internet search services provider Google Inc. has reportedly partnered with open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) to launch an experimental website. The website will look to speed up scientific discovery by allowing researchers to immediately share their findings and ideas about the H1N1 virus with the world's scientific and medical communities. The four articles already published on ‘PLoS Currents: Influenza’ cover subjects including the transmission of the virus in the tropics and vaccination strategies.

  Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing has released a new resource for corporations looking for information in the areas of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR). Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center is projected as a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of BC/DR. The resource is claimed to be a convenient, expert collection providing full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to BC/DR management.

  Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced the release of SirsiDynix Horizon 7.5 and Horizon Information Portal (HIP) 3.20. Horizon 7.5 provides support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Sybase ASE 15, giving an upgrade path for Horizon customers running older versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE. HIP has been enhanced to support the latest development environments including Java SE 6, JBoss 4.2.3 and Jetty 6.1.12. These new versions of JBoss and Java also make it possible to take advantage of 64-bit systems, including Microsoft Windows 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.

  Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library’s research archive - with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8 and the development of five additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1 to 5. Periodicals Archive Online is a major online journal archive that digitises the backfiles of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, providing access to the full text of a growing number of titles that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.

  Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has announced that institutions can now subscribe to the entire bibliographic record of dissertations written in the United Kingdom and Ireland from as far back as 1716, with full abstracts for titles available from 1986 in ‘ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – UK & Ireland’. Originally published by Expert Information’s Index to Theses, these new additions to ProQuest’s dissertations and theses portfolio reflect the scholarly output of some of the world’s leading research universities.

  The US’ National Library of Medicine has announced the introduction of Rapid Research Notes (RRN). Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of NLM, RRN will be used to archive research made available through online venues for rapid scientific communication. The RRN archive allows users to access research that is provided through participating publisher programmes designed for immediate communication.

  Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico has announced an agreement with University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Library (UTS Library) to preserve its online collection of 11 e-journals. With the inclusion of UTS Library's e-journals, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 77 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.

  The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has announced a £10 million funding for the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). The funds will be used for a significant increase in the Institute's data storage and handling capacity. The move is seen as the first step in developing the existing data resources and IT infrastructure of EMBL-EBI towards its planned role as the central hub of the emerging European Life-Science Infrastructure for Biological Information (ELIXIR).

  Knowledge discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc. has announced that their life science research portal www.BiomedExperts.com has surpassed the 200,000 registered user mark. Pre-populated with over 1.8 million Pub-Med-based expert profiles, BiomedExperts allows scientists and researchers to directly connect with and explore their own professional contacts, grow their networks and identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations.

  Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced the immediate availability of EndNote X3 for Mac OS X - the bibliographic management software that includes EndNote Web and is used by millions of researchers, librarians and students worldwide. EndNote X3 claims to increase productivity for researchers by delivering new ways to group references and find full text when off campus, expanding AppleScript support for key EndNote tasks, offering new composite styles popular with chemistry journals, and more.

  Journal Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, published by non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing, is presenting four topical reviews which have been published in the journal so far this year. These articles, available as part of the reviews collection on the journal's website, are currently free to read until December 31, 2011.

  Ripple6, a provider of social media services to brand marketers and publishers, has unveiled Ripple6 OnDemand, a social networking platform that seeks to offer easy implementation, scalability and new monetisation opportunities. With Ripple6 OnDemand, publishers can connect with their audiences and generate incremental revenue by helping brands tap into the power of social networking and community building in a fast, efficient, and cost-effective manner. The product enables a publisher to create a customised, content-ready site in as little as 24 hours. Content integration is simple, using standard web interfaces; design templates can be easily customised around branding guidelines, according to the company.

  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Jason Hoyt (Who is killing science on the Web? Publishers or Scientists?); Philip Davis (Pubget: Time-saver or Content Aggregator?); Kent Anderson (Two Stories from the Management Trap); and pubconvict (Book Returnability). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of blogspeak Here

  Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, will be jointly hosting a Korean Publishing Seminar with the Korean Psychological Association (KPA) as part of its efforts to support and boost the quality and output of the Korean research and scholarly community. Held as part of the KPA’s International Conference on Asia Pacific Psychology in Korea, Wiley-Blackwell expects an audience of young academics and professors, as well as graduate students doing post diploma studies.

  Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced that Bilkent University in Turkey has selected SirsiDynix Symphony integrated library system (ILS) and a range of value-added solutions for enhancing library user experience and library staff productivity. Bilkent University will migrate from the BLISS system in the early part of 2010. SirsiDynix is partnering with Turkish-based Informascope to provide local support to the Turkish market.

  The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced the appointment of M. Luisa Simpson, an attorney with a strong background in intellectual property, trade law, and technology policy, as Executive Director, International Copyright Enforcement and Trade Policy. Simpson, who officially joins AAP on August 24, succeeds Patricia Judd who left AAP this summer to accept a teaching fellowship and pursue a career in academia.

  Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that it has appointed Reid Sherline as Vice President of e-Strategy of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' digital learning and reference solutions for medical and allied health professionals. In his new position, Sherline will be responsible for creating, implementing and directing LWW's online businesses and associated products and services.

  Electronic research databases provider EBSCO has announced that from this month onward, the continuing education modules content found in the CINAHL Plus and Nursing Reference Center products are approved by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). This accreditation is claimed to demonstrate CINAHL’s support for professional continuing education opportunities, as the modules are rigorously reviewed by objective standards. The Nursing Reference Center has over 300 CE modules while the CINAHL Plus products have over 100.

  Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) together with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the American Theological Library Association, has named six librarians chosen to participate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2010. The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program supports library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies.