Dear Subscribers - December 24, 2007
This is to inform you that the number of articles carried in the newsletter will be fewer than usual, as business activity during this period (Dec 24 - 31, 2007) is relatively low. Also, please note that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Dec 25th and 26th. We take… Read More
Scribd initiative to help publishers fight online piracy - December 24, 2007
Online document sharing and publishing company Scribd has announced its new Qualified Publisher Program (QPP), which seeks to allow publishers to proactively fight piracy of copyrighted document. The programme's Text Matching System compares documents that users upload against those contributed to a filter by copyright holders,… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and The Cochrane Collaboration offer low-income countries with free one-click access to The Cochrane Library - December 24, 2007
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, and The Cochrane Collaboration have announced that they have made The Cochrane Library available with free one-click access to all residents of countries in the World Bank's list… Read More
Elsevier acquires CPM Resource Center from Eclipsys - December 24, 2007
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has purchased CPM Resource Center from Eclipsys, an integrated enterprise clinical, revenue cycle, access management, and decision support solutions provider. The transaction is effective immediately. CPM Resource Center is a leading provider of executable evidence-based clinical tools, resources,… Read More
ProQuest adds new feature to the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source - December 24, 2007
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced a new feature in the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source. Called Study Paths, the new feature is currently available at no charge to all ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source subscribers. With the new feature, students… Read More
Nature Publishing Group launches new research journal – Nature Geoscience - December 24, 2007
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that the first issue of Nature Geoscience recently went live at www.nature.com/ngeo. A new research journal, Nature Geoscience will publish significant new research in the Earth and planetary sciences from NPG. A monthly… Read More
