Dear Subscriber - October 15, 2009
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ALPSP releases first findings from Scholarly Book Publishing Practice Survey - October 14, 2009
The Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP) has released first findings from the Scholarly Book Publishing Practice Survey undertaken by Laura Cox of Frontline GMS and John Cox of John Cox Associates. During summer 2009, a survey was conducted of 400 publishers known to… Read More
NIHR to support publication of research articles in BioMed Central journals - October 14, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has agreed to a membership arrangement with the publisher to support publication of research articles in BioMed Central’s OA journals. The NIHR is part of the Department of Health, which… Read More
Elsevier announces publishing partnership with Peking University - October 14, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing partnership with Peking University. Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the Proceedings of the Beijing Forum from 2004 to 2008 in Procedia. Procedia is Elsevier’s e-only product publishing high quality conference proceedings. It enables fast dissemination… Read More
LexisNexis unveils semantic search technology for IP research products - October 14, 2009
Information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, has announced the availability of transparent semantic search technology for its full range of intellectual property (IP) research products. This is projected to enable users to find precise and relevant patent search results. Through a development alliance with US-based Pure Discovery,… Read More
More publishers add multilingual content to NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook collections - October 14, 2009
Global library cooperative OCLC has announced that its e-book and e-audiobook service, NetLibrary, now offers more than 200,000 eBooks and over 13,000 eAudiobooks from over 550 publishers in a variety of subject areas and disciplines. NetLibrary claims to be the first eContent provider to offer academic,… Read More
