EBSCO Publishing acquires Expert Publishing - March 8, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that it has acquired Expert Publishing (ExPub), a provider of up-to-date, decision-support chemical information for the global environmental health & safety (EH&S) community. ExPub databases offer EBSCO a variety of options for enhancing existing databases and… Read More
Nina V. Fedoroff named president-elect of AAAS - March 8, 2010
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Nina V. Fedoroff, science and technology adviser to the US Secretary of State and the US Agency for International Development, as AAAS president in 2011. Fedoroff, a geneticist and molecular biologist, is a pioneering researcher… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 8, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Coturnix (Why it is important for media articles to link to scientific papers); Kent Anderson (Cultural Upheaval: It’s Still Print vs. Online As Major Magazines Go Digital); Joe Wikert (The End of Ebooks); Ann Michael (Shirky at NFAIS: How Abundance… Read More
SPARC releases guide on open access publishing funds for campuses - March 5, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new guide and supporting web resource exploring campus-based open access (OA) publishing funds. Authored by SPARC consultant Greg Tananbaum, the new resources survey the current North American landscape of OA funds and explore key emerging… Read More
HighWire releases results of librarians’ survey on e-books - March 5, 2010
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University libraries, has released the full results of a Fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to e-books. The survey, available online at http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/HighWireEBookSurvey2010.pdf, was conducted as part of HighWire's ongoing… Read More
Nature Communications announces Editorial Advisory Panel - March 5, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Nature Communications has published its Editorial Advisory Panel of over 40 academic experts, on the journal’s website at www.nature.com/ncomms/eap. A new online-only journal, Nature Communications is scheduled for launch in April 2010.… Read More
