Dialog announces new product enhancements - December 10, 2008
Online information services provider Dialog, US, part of the ProQuest family of brands, announced several product enhancements at the recently concluded Online Information conference in London. The enhancements, the first major product changes since Dialog's acquisition by ProQuest in July, include File History Linking and a… Read More
First Therapeutic Advances series titles accepted for indexing in MEDLINE - December 10, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the first two titles in its Therapeutic Advances (TA) series have been accepted for indexing in MEDLINE. As a result, both titles will be indexed on the PubMed website. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database. The… Read More
Dear Subscribers - December 10, 2008
STM Publishers can now add their Company to the Knowledgespeak Directory list. You can also update our events calendar, if you are organising an event which may be of interest to the STM publishing community. Also, you can send your company Read More
US buyout firm may buy Reed Elsevier’s publishing unit - December 9, 2008
Media Company Reed Elsevier, UK, is close to selling its publishing unit Reed Business Information (RBI) to private equity firm Bain Capital for $1 billion, according to media reports. Bain moved into the lead after rival private equity group TPG recently pulled out of the bidding… Read More
Springer set to publish Fisheries Science - December 9, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it is set to publish Fisheries Science, the official journal of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, starting January 2009. Dr. Toshio Takeuchi of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology will serve as editor-in-chief. The journal, previously… Read More
Scitation unveils C³ online publishing platform with XML content server - December 9, 2008
Scitation, the online hosting platform of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and 30 scientific and technical publishers formally introduced the C³ development initiative at the recently concluded Online Information 2008. The programme, which began over a year ago with the release of Web 2.0-enabled abstract… Read More