Japan ministry selects Thomson Reuters’ information solutions for strategic national project on accelerating translational research - January 21, 2009
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (FBRI) has selected its key intellectual property and pharmaceutical & life sciences data platforms - Thomson Innovation, Thomson Pharma and IDRAC - for a major national project. The project aims… Read More
Ex Libris launches collaboration initiative for design of digital preservation system - January 21, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced a Charter Program to foster strategic collaboration between the company and its customers on the ongoing design of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. Having gone live at the National Library of New Zealand in November… Read More
Dear Subscribers - January 21, 2009
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
Elsevier, CAS agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange - January 21, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and chemical database provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently reached an agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange to improve their respective operations and service offerings. Under the agreement, Elsevier will… Read More
Publishing Research Consortium brings out a preliminary report on Journal Authors’ Rights – perception and reality - January 21, 2009
The Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) has announced that it will shortly be publishing its fifth Summary Paper. The paper compares the findings of a specially commissioned study on what authors want to do with their journal articles, and what they believe they are permitted to do… Read More
Apple opts for MathType as equation editor for new iWork ’09 suite of applications - January 21, 2009
Enterprise software vendor Design Science, Inc., US, has announced that Apple has chosen its product MathType as the equation editor for its new iWork '09 suite of applications. Design Science makes the MathFlow line of MathML editing and composition tools for XML publishing. Phil Schiller, Apple's… Read More