ebrary and Matthews Book Company announce new e-book offering - September 12, 2008
E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that it has joined forces with health science information provider Matthews Book Company to distribute e-books and other authoritative content in medicine and allied health to libraries and other organisations across the globe. A growing selection of more than… Read More
OncologySTAT advisors name year’s most influential oncology developments - September 12, 2008
OncologySTAT, a subscription-free professional oncology portal from STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, celebrated its one-year anniversary by releasing a list of the most influential oncology developments of the past year chosen by an expert physician panel. Two overriding themes of this online editorial feature are biomarker-directed treatment… Read More
Dear Subscribers - September 12, 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
NFAIS conferences for publishers and librarians - September 11, 2008
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Committee on Usage Statistics is organising a one-day conference - Usage Statistics: New Developments and Practical Applications - to be held October 21, 2008, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New… Read More
ProQuest, Google form partnership to digitise newspaper content - September 11, 2008
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has announced a partnership with Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, to bring millions of pages of newspaper content to the open web. The programme allows web access to archives of both large and small newspapers, which might never… Read More
University of Texas at Austin adopts CCC’s Annual Copyright License - September 11, 2008
The University of Texas at Austin has signed an agreement with non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, to become the largest institution to adopt CCC's Annual Copyright License for academic institutions. This agreement seeks to provide librarians, faculty, copy shop staff and… Read More