Wiley-Blackwell study predicts impact of economic downturn on publishing partners - July 2, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, recently conducted a study examining the potential impact of the economic downturn on its society publishing partners. Sixty percent of professional and scholarly societies believe that the global economic downturn might be… Read More
JISC Collections, Gale partner to make Eighteenth Century Collections Online Part 2 available to UK academic community - July 2, 2009
E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and JISC Collections have announced an agreement to make Part 2 of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) digitisation project freely available to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO. With… Read More
Elsevier launches new web-based tool, SciVal Spotlight - July 1, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SciVal Spotlight, a customised web-based tool that offers institutions a multidisciplinary perspective of research performance to evaluate, establish and execute more informed research strategies. SciVal Spotlight uses a visualisation technique to produce customised maps that provide graphical… Read More
WK Health launches new market research service, inThought - July 1, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has introduced a new market research service, Wolters Kluwer Health inThought. The service was developed to help financial analysts, health care suppliers and drug makers understand where developmental drugs, medical devices and therapies are positioned today… Read More
NPG ties up with Charlesworth to incorporate XMP metadata in PDF version of ‘Nature’ - July 1, 2009
Publishing solutions provider The Charlesworth Group, UK, has announced a partnership with scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, to incorporate eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata within online PDFs for the science journal Nature. The move is expected to improve the archiving of new… Read More
Emerald offers free online access to journals - July 1, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, is making its new journals free online. Under the initiative, every two months, users will be able to access up to three new titles recently added to the Emerald portfolio at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/new_launch/index.htm.
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