Oxford Journals to deposit NIH-funded articles into PubMed Central - August 5, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced that they will deposit into PubMed Central (PMC) any articles published in any of their biomedical journals which are identified by the authors as being funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This… Read More
SIIA to hold Global Information Industry Summit in September - August 5, 2008
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the trade association for the software and digital information industries, has announced its third annual Global Information Industry Summit. The event, scheduled for September 9-11, 2008, will have industry executives gathering at the Royal Garden Hotel, London, to discuss… Read More
Wiley Organic Essentials now available via CambridgeSoft - August 5, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new agreement with enterprise solutions provider CambridgeSoft Corporation, US. Under the deal, CambridgeSoft will offer structure- and substructure-searchable versions of Wiley's organic chemistry content to… Read More
ICTP Science Dissemination Unit launches new book on OA - August 5, 2008
The Scientific Dissemination Unit (SDU) of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) recently released a free online book, Science Dissemination Using Open Access, a compendium of selected literature on Open Access (OA). Edited by E. Canessa and M. Zennaro, the book is an effort by… Read More
EnergyCurrent expands site with new feature and improved search function - August 5, 2008
EnergyCurrent.com, a publisher of upstream energy business news focused on offshore petroleum and emerging and alternative energy resources, has enabled a new feature, allowing registered users to comment on all of the site's articles. The comments feature allows readers to interact with the stories, adding their… Read More
Professor Timothy O’Shea named new chair of JISC - August 5, 2008
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), on behalf of the UK funding bodies, has announced that Professor Timothy O'Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed as the new chair of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), effective January 1,… Read More
