Bowker acquires BML from Publishing News - February 8, 2010
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the acquisition of BML (Book Marketing) from Publishing News Ltd. With this acquisition, Bowker seeks to expand its ability to provide business intelligence to the global publishing market. BML is a provider of market research on the UK book… Read More
New Subject Section for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical - February 8, 2010
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that the Classical and Quantum Field Theory section in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical will change to Field Theory and String Theory. The new section will be under the leadership of Arkady… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 8, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Virginia Barbour (Science editorial on who takes responsibility for the research in a paper); Liz Wager (Stem cell scientists’ criticisms of peer review); Kent Anderson (Rethinking Open Data Initiatives: It Turns Out Open Data Costs Money, Needs a Purpose); Joe… Read More
New study recommends blanket ban on medical ghostwriting - February 5, 2010
PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed online publication of open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS), has published a study that proposes a strict ban on medical ghostwriting. A scientist who takes credit as an author on an article secretly written by a pharmaceutical company should be… Read More
Amended Google settlement shows improvements but issues remain, says US DoJ - February 5, 2010
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has submitted its views on the proposed amended settlement between the Authors Guild and Google, Inc. It has advised the District Court for the Southern District of New York that despite substantial progress reflected in the proposed agreement, class certification,… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry announces beta release of ChemSpider SyntheticPagesbeta - February 5, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, has announced the release of ChemSpider SyntheticPagesbeta, a community resource of reaction synthesis procedures. The launch of a beta site is the result of a collaboration between ChemSpider, a free online structure centric community for chemists, and the original… Read More
