Dear Subscriber - February 4, 2010
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PEER releases baseline report on repositories use by authors and users - February 3, 2010
The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) has announced that the PEER Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University has completed its behavioural baseline report on authors and users vis-à-vis journals and repositories. The report, now available at http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/, is based… Read More
National Library of Medicine’ Bookshelf adds National Academies Reports - February 3, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, has announced that more than 70 reports by the National Academies are available online at NLM's Bookshelf. Bookshelf is a searchable, online collection of biomedical books and other material, produced by NLM's National… Read More
ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication announce 8-part webinar series for libraries - February 3, 2010
The ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC) has announced a series of eight webinars for libraries to continue developing their scholarly communication programmes. The webinar series is targeted at individuals from institutions that have sent representatives to previous ISC events. This initiative seeks to provide an… Read More
Springer ownership change confirmed - February 3, 2010
The closing of the sale of Springer Science+Business Media S.A. (Springer) by Cinven and Candover to funds managed by EQT and GIC, announced on December 11, 2009, is confirmed. Competition authorities in the US and in Europe have approved the transfer. Springer has received an injection… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert launches video journal for urologists - February 3, 2010
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has launched Videourology, a video journal for urologists. The journal will cover fully peer-reviewed surgical and micro-invasive video demonstrations of the latest techniques and technologies used to optimise surgical patient care. Videourology is Part B of the Journal of… Read More
