Dear Subscribers - November 28, 2008
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Academic publishers examine future of books at Yale University Press symposium - November 27, 2008
As part of its ongoing centenary celebration, Yale University Press recently hosted a one-day symposium entitled 'Why Books Still Matter'. The conference on scholarly publishing was sponsored by Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Yale University Press. In his keynote… Read More
Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms launched with Unbound Medicine technology - November 27, 2008
Knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, has announced the release of new 'digitally born' products developed in partnership with Merck & Co., Inc. The new products extend the Merck Manual franchise with a new database focused on the assessment and treatment… Read More
Scopus expands Arts & Humanities coverage - November 27, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its flagship product Scopus will be nearly doubling its Arts & Humanities (A&H) titles. Access to the new journals will be available to Scopus users in April 2009. Currently the Scopus database contains 1,600 titles in A&H and related… Read More
GSA journal Lithosphere to debut in early 2009 - November 27, 2008
The Geological Society of America has announced the early 2009 launch of a new journal - Lithosphere. The journal is the latest addition to the Society's collection of premier peer-reviewed, earth-science journals. Prof. James P. Evans of the Department of Geology at Utah State University, Prof.… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell increases publication frequency of materials science journals - November 27, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it will double the publishing frequencies of its materials science journal Advanced Materials and nanoscience journal Small in 2009. Advanced Materials and Small are two of the most-cited journals… Read More
