Dear Subscribers - June 2, 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
Publishers’ Association reports success with anti-piracy web tool - June 1, 2009
An anti-piracy web tool launched by the Publishers' Association, UK, in February has reportedly recorded about 800 illegally uploaded texts. The tool has successfully helped to remove almost 90 percent of these from the web. The Association's Copyright Infringement portal fights online piracy by targeting those… Read More
Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care named official journal of AAHFN - June 1, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the journal Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care has become the official journal of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN). The AAHFN recently announced its collaboration with the global publisher for adopting the… Read More
World Scientific and Nature Publishing Group announce first co-publishing project - June 1, 2009
Scientific publishers World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, and Nature Publishing Group, UK, have announced their first co-publishing project. Entitled 'Nanoscience and Technology: A Collection of Reviews from NATURE Journals', the publishers will launch the publication in October 2009 at Frankfurt Book… Read More
Seed Media launches new initiatives in scientific communication - June 1, 2009
Science media company Seed Media Group, US, has announced the launch of several new initiatives and innovations in scientific communication. Seed CEO Adam Bly launched these initiatives during the recently concluded Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Among the new initiatives are:… Read More
American Ceramic Society set to launch new journal - June 1, 2009
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is set to launch a new, peer-reviewed scientific journal - The International Journal of Applied Glass Science (IJAGS) - dedicated to glass research. Dr. L. David Pye, dean and professor of glass science, emeritus, at the New York State College of… Read More