ProQuest launches marketing toolkit for academic libraries - November 21, 2007
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced the launch of a free Library Marketing Toolkit designed for academic librarians. The toolkit is projected to help library staff create awareness of the library's online resources among patrons, and encourage students to try them out, as… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group and Purdue University sign MoU - November 21, 2007
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group, UK, has announced an agreement with Purdue University's Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Under the deal, both parties will jointly explore and develop a set of new online content and collaboration offerings to aid the global nanoscience research community. In a Memorandum… Read More
Maney Publishing to re-launch International Musculoskeletal Medicine journal - November 21, 2007
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it will start publishing the International Musculoskeletal Medicine on behalf of the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine (SOM) and the British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (BIMM), starting 2008. International Musculoskeletal Medicine, formerly called the Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine, will… Read More
EPJ C expands OA publishing scheme - November 21, 2007
The European Physical Journal (EPJ) C, one of the eight journals in the EPJ family, has reportedly converted to no-fee open access (OA) for all its research articles as of November 1, 2007. The journal, for the past year, has been a hybrid OA journal charging… Read More
Change in draft wordings may dissuade WHO from implementing OA policy - November 21, 2007
Revised guidelines by an international committee for the World Health Organisation (WHO) imply that the WHO should 'encourage' open access (OA) to government funded research findings, it has been reported. This is seen to jeopardise efforts to convince the WHO that it ought to make OA to such findings mandatory.… Read More
Dr. Janan Hayes joins American Chemical Society’s Board of Directors - November 21, 2007
The American Chemical Society (ACS), US, has announced that Dr. Janan M. Hayes, retired chemist faculty member and administrator at Merced College, Merced Calif, has been elected to the Society's Board of Directors. She will begin a three year term starting January 1, 2008, as director-at-large.… Read More
