Emerald appoints new Business Manager for Middle East and Turkey - March 31, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the appointment of Alastair Cook as business manager for Middle East and Turkey. Alastair will be working alongside Brian Berry, who has represented Emerald for a number of years within the region, enabling him… Read More
Dear Subscribers - March 31, 2009
We are happy to release the second edition of blogspeak. Featured are Peter Murray Rust(Would the NIH policy destroy the ACS?); the shifted librarian(Twittephemeraliness); Stevan Harnad (On Throwing Money At Gold OA Without First Mandating Green OA, Again); and the UK PubMed Central (enabling easier reporting on the outcomes of… Read More
PE firms put up academic publisher Springer for sale - March 30, 2009
Candover and Cinven, the private equity (PE) companies that own media group Springer Science and Business Media, Germany, have reportedly put the company up for sale with a price tag of £2 billion. The PE owners are believed to have appointed UBS and Goldman Sachs to… Read More
Now follow Knowledgespeak on Twitter - March 30, 2009
Knowledgespeak.com, published by Scope e-Knowledge Center, is now on twitter - http://twitter.com/knowledgespeak. Read More
Elsevier journal Biomaterials to host Biomaterials Asia 2009 - March 30, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Biomaterials, a leading journal in the field of biomaterials science, will host Biomaterials Asia 2009. Scheduled for April 5-8, 2009, in Hong Kong, the event will highlight the latest Asian research developments, institutions, and individuals in biomaterials science. Under… Read More
PLoS ONE launches community blog for journal authors and readers - March 30, 2009
PLoS ONE, a free online journal published by open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS), US, has announced the launch of everyONE (http://everyone.plos.org), a new community blog for PLoS ONE authors and readers. As of March 2009, PLoS ONE has published… Read More
