AAUP announces cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral - June 23, 2009
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral, a self-service e-content delivery platform from Impelsys, to support its 130 members in pursuing electronic publishing. The partnership provides AAUP members with a discount for using iPublishCentral's e-publishing platform and services through… Read More
RIN report examines UK’s share of world research outputs - June 22, 2009
The Research Information Network (RIN) has announced a new report that highlights key issues both for those who produce bibliometric analyses of research performance, and for those who commission and make use of such work. Bibliometrics is observed to be playing an increasing role in assessing… Read More
NPG permits data- and text-mining on self-archived manuscripts - June 22, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it will explicitly permit academic reuse of archived author manuscripts. The announcement was made by David Hoole, Head of Content Licensing, at the OAI6 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Researchers can now data-mine and text-mine author manuscripts… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils EndNote X3 for Windows with additional functionalities - June 22, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has released an upgrade to EndNote for Windows, a bibliographic management software for researchers, librarians and students. EndNote X3, including EndNote Web, delivers a collaborative solution that seeks to make users more productive. It expands ways to… Read More
Springer, SISSA sign publishing deal - June 22, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a publishing partnership with the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy. Under the deal, Springer will publish the latter's online-only scientific journal, Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), starting January 1, 2010. The JHEP publishes a wide array of… Read More
Earthscan announces price freeze for 2010 - June 22, 2009
Independent publisher Earthscan, UK, has announced that it is freezing journal prices for 2010. The move is in response to the current recession and library budget difficulties, and with recognition of the growing importance wide dissemination of research on sustainability. The price freeze applies globally, and… Read More
