Emerald sets up new North American office to better serve authors, editors and customers - August 6, 2008
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the establishment of Emerald Inc., a subsidiary company incorporated in the US and based in new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With a growing number of authors and editors coming from the US, the new… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - August 6, 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
Open access boosts readership but does not impact citations, says study - August 5, 2008
Open access (OA) or free online articles get read more often, but do not get cited frequently in academic literature, according to a new Cornell study. The findings of the study, published online in the British Medical Journal, are particularly relevant to academic researchers, because the frequency with which a… Read More
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
