Springer launches SpringerImages database - July 10, 2009
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has launched SpringerImages, a growing collection that now includes over 1.5 million scientific images, tables, charts and graphs, spanning all scientific subject areas. The new database will be officially launched at the forthcoming American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago.… Read More
University of Chicago Press extends multi-year deal with Cadmus - July 10, 2009
Publishing services provider Cadmus Communications, US, has announced that it has been awarded a three and a half year contract extension by the University of Chicago Press (UCP). Under the deal, Cadmus will provide a full range of scholarly journal production services including composition, content management,… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell launches inaugural issue of Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - July 10, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced that the inaugural issue of its new journal, Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, is now online, and can be accessed via http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122491012/home. The official journal of the Pacific Rim… Read More
New editor named for Journal of Medical Genetics - July 9, 2009
Medical publisher The BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of Professor Constantin Polychronakos as the new editor of the genetics title, Journal of Medical Genetics (JMG), effective July 2009. He succeeds Professor Eamonn Maher who held the post for 11 years.
Professor Polychronakos heads up… Read More
Dear Subscribers - July 9, 2009
STM Publishers and other print/publishing Services and Support Tools providers can now use the all new K-Store platform to post information across three sections - a Jobs section, a virtual storefronts directory and a print/publishing Read More
LexisNexis to participate in web-scale discovery service, Summon - July 9, 2009
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, has signed up for the former's web-scale discovery service, Summon. About a hundred other content providers are already participating in the service. ProQuest and Gale contribute indexing of… Read More