Outsell publishes report forecasting growth of information industry till 2011 - September 30, 2008
Media industry-focused research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has released a new report titled 2008 Information Industry Market Size, Share & Forecast Report. According to the report, revenues for the worldwide information industry are on track to reach $466 billion by 2011. Outsell forecasts a… Read More
Chemistry Central hosts session at EuCheMS Congress on OA publishing in Chemistry - September 30, 2008
Chemistry Central recently hosted an open session - An Introduction to Open Access Publishing in Chemistry - at the recent EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Torino, Italy. Chemistry Central, a service of open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, publishes peer-reviewed OA research in chemistry.
The Second EuCheMS… Read More
Professional Engineering Publishing selects Preprint Manager for journal production tracking - September 30, 2008
Professional Engineering Publishing (PE Publishing), the publishing arm of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, has announced that it will transition to web-based production tracking using Preprint Manager from Aries Systems Corporation. Preprint Manager is a web-based content management system for scholarly journals, books and… Read More
Journal of Physics D announces online publication of Cluster Issue on Microplasmas - September 30, 2008
The Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, published by IOP publishing, has announced the online publication of a Cluster Issue on Microplasmas. The papers in this Cluster Issue originate from the fourth International Workshop on Microplasmas. Guest edited by Chih C Chao, Jiunn-Der Liao and Juu-En… Read More
LWW titles honoured at the 2008 BMA Medical Book Awards - September 30, 2008
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that TNM Staging Atlas by Philip Rubin & John T. Hansen has been awarded the prestigious BMA Medical Book of the Year 2008. Having already scooped First Prize for Oncology it… Read More
Research project of the year shortlist announced - September 30, 2008
Research exploring the spreading of facts, cultural diversity in the arts, computer memory storage, and climate change are among the projects shortlisted for the 2008 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards research project of the year, sponsored by academic publisher SAGE. Now in its fourth year, the awards aim to raise… Read More