The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced the launch of a new eBooks site for ASME. AIP has made numerous new enhancements to its eBooks platform, designed to lend support to the marketing of recent ASME Press titles and ASME Handbooks & Manuals. By end of 2010, ASME’s catalogue of eBooks hosted on AIP’s Scitation C3 platform will reach nearly 100.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that well-known scientists in the chemical sciences field appeared at the RSC's three conferences in three continents for the launch of the new flagship journal, Chemical Science. These conferences were held over three successive weeks in July. Commencing in San Francisco earlier this month, the inaugural meetings heralded the start of a new global conference series, aligned to the new journal.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced a co-publishing partnership with VGTU Journals, based at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. Under the deal, ten journals will be co-published for 2011, with three further titles joining in 2012. Taylor & Francis’ Stockholm office will provide local liaison and support, while the company’s international Marketing networks will ensure that the journals content is seen, read and cited by active researchers around the world.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) have developed a new online toolkit to assist physicians in selecting the most appropriate software to run their practices. Free to members of the AMA and the MGMA, the ‘Selecting a Practice Management System’ toolkit is accessible on the AMA and MGMA websites.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc. has announced the launch of a new version of e-books reader Kindle. The company has also introduced a new addition to its family of portable reading devices - Kindle Wi-Fi. The new Kindle and Kindle Wi-Fi are now available for pre-order, and will ship to customers in over 140 countries and 30 territories beginning August 27.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Multidisciplinary renal-care journal Dialysis & Transplantation (D&T), published by Wiley-Blackwell, has announced a partnership with the Medical Education Institute (MEI) and its Home Dialysis Central website. The journal and MEI will together create a list of dialysis clinics in the US that support home dialysis therapies. The new resource will be published in the July 2010 edition of The List, D&T’s annual worldwide guide to clinics that accept travelling patients. The resource will be published in the July 2010 issue of D&T (www.eneph.com) and will be available on the Home Dialysis Central website (www.homedialysis.org).
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

MetaPress, a US-based web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced that more publishers have selected MetaPress as their e-content hosting provider. The latest publishers to launch their electronic content management and hosting services via the MetaPress platform include American Library Association; Association for Experiential Education; Council on Social Work Education; Edward Elgar Publishing; Harvard Education Publishing Group; National Council of State Boards of Nursing; NetBiblo/Groupo Biblo; The Open University; and ReVision.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Enterprise digital content conversion and publishing software company WebWorks has released an enterprise level content conversion tool with built-in support for the Apple iPad and ePUB standard. WebWorks' ePublisher 2010 Mobile Plus release is the first enterprise solution to support the emerging ePUB standard to create eBooks readable on the latest generation of mobile content devices.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has announced the launch of the English Profile Journal. The new journal is an online-only initiative that will publish cutting-edge research emerging out of the English Profile programme. English Profile is a collaborative research programme registered with the Council of Europe that aims to provide a detailed set of Reference Level Descriptions linked to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for English.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Internet search services provider Google Inc. has reportedly said that it is not hindered in the Middle East by government-backed censorship as it seeks to ride growing opportunities in the region. Google is seeking to expand in the Middle East, where it estimates that less than 15 percent of the residents go online. In January, the company went public with a dispute in China. It had then stated that it was no longer willing to comply with filtering regulations.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content.

Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at leisure which means faster access. No Waiting time, no Connection Charges and read as you please with several options like Search for Customised alerts, Keywords, Links, Settings etc. These are NOT possible in a direct portal access especially from a Mobile Phone.

In addition to general industry updates, subscribers can choose to receive updates on
 Big picture information (consortium news, Google updates, M&A, etc);
 Thought leadership, insights (end user insights / behaviour, market data, new publishing models / trends, etc);
 Technology information (e-readers / tablets, search technologies, social web, etc);
 Other topics (library information, licensing, pricing, etc).

Knowledgespeak is currently inviting feedback/suggestions from its subscribers as to their experiences with the service. Subscribers can directly download the beta application to your mobile phone, by visiting http://www.scopeknowledge.com/scoope.jar using your mobile browser. The best 10 feedbacks will receive free access to SCOOPE for one year. Please send in your feedback to us at kspeaknews@scopeknowledge.com
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme