Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice joins BioMed Central’s OA platform - January 28, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice has recently joined the growing number of journals opting to transfer to BioMed Central's open access platform. The move will complement the exposure generated from the journal's recent acceptance for tracking by… Read More
Turpin Distribution launches e-commerce service for journal subscriptions - January 28, 2009
Distribution services provider Turpin Distribution, UK, is set to launch a new comprehensive and fully integrated e-commerce service for journal subscriptions. The service will be open to all of the company's journal publishers and customers. Customers will be able to search for titles across all Turpin's… Read More
Corrigendum - January 28, 2009
This is with reference to the news alert titled "University Press' announce job cuts" covered in the News Section of Knowledgespeak (dated 27, January 2009). Readers may please note that the news article has been revised due to ambiguity reasons. The revised version of the news article is Read More
Research and Markets unveils new report on scientists’ use of social media - January 27, 2009
Market research and data services provider Research and Markets, Ireland, has announced the addition of the 'The Brave New World of Scientific Publishing' report to their offering. The report is based on responses to a 37-question online survey conducted by BioInformatics, LLC.… Read More
Elsevier set to launch more than 600 Health Science e-book titles on ScienceDirect - January 27, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that more than 600 medical, veterinary medicine, and health professions book titles will be launched in Health Science eBook Collections on ScienceDirect, in April 2009. Elsevier's health science books are published under the imprints W.B. Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, and… Read More
Nature Publishing Group expands open access choices for authors - January 27, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it is expanding open access choices for authors in 2009, through both 'green' self-archiving and 'gold' (authors-pays) open access publication routes. Eleven journals published by NPG are offering an open access option from January 2009. NPG… Read More
