Elsevier announces European availability of illumin8 - January 26, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the European availability of illumin8, a web-based natural language processing solution designed to help corporate research professionals answer complex R&D questions with greater speed and effectiveness. illumin8 extracts key relationships across Elsevier's premium scientific content, millions of patents and 8… Read More
Springer’s online information platform now offers over 30,000 eBooks - January 26, 2009
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has reached a milestone by publishing its 30,000th eBook in January 2009. Originally launched in 1996, SpringerLink provides students and researchers with electronic access to the largest collection of eBooks; more than 1,500 peer-reviewed Springer journals; as well as 18,000… Read More
IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Office launches e-copyright tools for publication editors - January 26, 2009
The IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Office has made available two new electronic copyright form (eCF) tools for volunteers who are responsible for collecting, submitting and monitoring IEEE Copyright Forms. To help volunteers track eCF submissions, the IPR Office and the IEEE Publishing Technology Group have developed… Read More
SPARC releases guide and web community on campus-based publishing partnerships - January 26, 2009
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a guide titled Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A guide to critical issues, by Raym Crow. The guide is the core of a new website, the Campus-based Publishing Resource Center, designed by a panel of advisors from the… Read More
YBP Library Services to sell Greenwood online databases - January 26, 2009
Greenwood, a publishing imprint of ABC-CLIO, US, recently announced an agreement with YBP Library Services, a leading provider of materials to academic libraries. Under the deal, YBP Library Services will act as the non-exclusive agent for the sale of Greenwood's online databases in the US. A… Read More
New editor-in-chief for Journal of Physics A - January 26, 2009
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, published by IOP publishing, UK, recently announced the appointment of Professor Murray T Batchelor of the Australian National University, Canberra, as the new Editor-in-Chief, effective January 2009. He succeeds Professor Carl M Bender. Murray Batchelor has been Editor of… Read More
