Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 13, 2009
The Fourth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Colin Smith (Concern about accepted manuscripts and the possibility of open access publishing); Gavin Baker (NIH Open-Access Policy Turns 1 Year Old); Kent Anderson (Are e-Books Already Mainstream?); David Clover (Online Research Papers Database - ORO); and Roddy MacLeod (Top… Read More
Elsevier acquires Professional Development Software, Inc - April 10, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of the assets of Professional Development Software, Inc. (PDS), the provider of Softwarefornurses.com online learning education products. Under the deal, PDS will be integrated into Elsevier's Evolve Testing and Remediation product suite (which includes the 'HESI Test'), bringing… Read More
American Heart Association partners with Wiley-Blackwell to launch new book series - April 10, 2009
The American Heart Association has announced a partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, to publish a new series of medical references. The new series called the American Heart Association Clinical Series is… Read More
SAE International partners with HighWire Press to launch technical paper collections - April 10, 2009
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, US, has announced the launch of new compilations comprising the best SAE technical papers written each year, in partnership with HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries. The compilations, called SAE International Journals, are projected to give the… Read More
Inderscience Publishers announces inaugural issues of four new titles - April 10, 2009
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, has announced the inaugural issues of four new titles. The new titles are: International Journal of Autonomic Computing; International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology; International Journal of Information and Coding Theory; and International Journal of Materials… Read More
International Journal of Engine Research set to receive Impact Factor - April 10, 2009
Professional Engineering Publishing (PE Publishing), the publishing arm of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, has announced that the International Journal of Engine Research has been selected for inclusion in Thomson Reuters' Science Citation Index Expanded, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, and Current Contents/Engineering Computing and… Read More