Elsevier announces Asia and Pacific availability of illumin8 - April 3, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the Asia and Pacific (APAC) availability of illumin8, a Web-based natural language processing solution designed to help corporate research professionals answer complex R&D questions with greater speed and effectiveness. illumin8 extracts key relationships across the breadth of Elsevier's premium scientific… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces publishing partnership with the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - April 3, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership with the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the Society's journals Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and Integrated… Read More
Oxford Journals launches new OA journal – DATABASE - April 3, 2009
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the launch of an innovative, open access journal, DATABASE: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. David Landsman will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The new journal seeks… Read More
SAGE expands medical publishing programme - April 3, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the further growth of its medical publishing programme with the acquisition of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research (DVDR) from Sherborne Gibbs Limited. The journal is the official journal of the International Society of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, and will be… Read More
ProQuest names Annie Callanan as COO - April 3, 2009
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has named Bowker President and CEO, Annie Callanan, as Chief Operating Officer. In her new role, Callanan will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn and will manage the day-to-day operations for ProQuest's publishing, marketing, customer… Read More
Dear Subscribers - April 3, 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
