Emerald Management honours top authors of 2007 - August 8, 2008
Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced the winners of its 2007 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their twelfth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world. Each year the Emerald Management Reviews Accreditation… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - August 8, 2008
Knowledgespeak is planning to atomise its content. A preliminary but significant initiative has already been taken in this direction. For an internationally esteemed association, we have repackaged and categorised our news under various topics to suit the information needs of its members. We are exploring other possibilities of bringing a… Read More
South African team looking to emulate Brazil’s SciELO to scientific publishing model - August 7, 2008
A delegation from the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf) recently visited BIREME In Sao Paulo, Brazil. The purpose was to review the possibility for the adoption of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) model as a platform to manage scientific publication in South Africa.… Read More
MPS Technologies launch BookStore Academic - August 7, 2008
MPS Technologies, the technology arm of Macmillan India, has launched a new module of BookStore - BookStore Academic. BookStore Academic will give academic publishers new ways to sell and package their eBook content, and provide their end-users with state-of-the art research tools. It has been specifically… Read More
New publication on climate change - August 7, 2008
e-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the release of Climate Change in Context, a new reference book designed to explain the complexities of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Climate Change in Context explains the history, politics and… Read More
Scholarly publishers adopt German version of Editorial Manager - August 7, 2008
Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced that publishers such as Georg Thieme Verlag, Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag and Hogrefe Verlag have adopted the German version of Editorial Manager. The publishers have launched online manuscript submission and peer review services specifically tailored to German-speaking authors.… Read More