Benefits of OA substantially outweigh costs in three European countries, says report - July 6, 2009
Knowledge Exchange, a co-operative effort, has commissioned a study on the costs and benefits of scholarly communication in three countries - Denmark, the UK and the Netherlands. The study titled 'Open Access - What are the economic benefits? A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and… Read More
Research4Life programmes boost research output, says impact analysis - July 6, 2009
The partners of Research4Life announced at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 that a new research impact analysis has demonstrated a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since 2002. Comparing absolute growth in published research before (1996 - 2002) and… Read More
Nature Publishing Group to produce online videos of Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting - July 6, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the Foundation Lindau Nobel prize winners Meetings at Lake Constance have signed an agreement to collaborate in the production of online videos of this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on chemistry. Produced by Nature Video, the videos will… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces latest updates to Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures - July 6, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced latest updates to its online learning and reference product - Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (RMM). The publisher partnered with online publishing solutions provider Semantico Ltd to launch… Read More
Brill announces 2010 journal prices - July 6, 2009
Academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, has ceased price increases for certain subscription types in 2010. According to the company, the EURO electronic-only price and the US$ electronic and print price will not increase and US$ electronic-only price will decrease by 7 percent. Brill has re-introduced the print-only… Read More
University of Manchester and EMBL-EBI launch new e-science resource for biologists - July 6, 2009
The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have launched a new e-science resource for biologists - Biocatalogue.org. A centralised registry of curated life science web services, Biocatalogue.org was officially launched at the 17th Annual International… Read More
