2009 Emerald/ALCS African Management Research Fund award winner announced - June 24, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, and The Authors' Licensing and Collection Society (ALCS), in association with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) and the International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD) have announced the winner of… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - June 24, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
Worldwide cloud services market to cross $148 million by 2014, says Gartner report - June 23, 2010
Technology research services firm Gartner, Inc., US, has released forecasts for worldwide cloud services, according to which revenue from these services are expected to reach $68.3 billion in 2010. That would mark a 16.6 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $58.6 billion. Also, the industry is… Read More
Elsevier pilots new peer review programme – PeerChoice - June 23, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of PeerChoice, a new pilot peer review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can now choose which articles they would like to review. It is expected that by choosing articles matching their expertise and interest, efficiency and… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell to conduct trial of SciVee video platform - June 23, 2010
SciVee, a video platform solutions provider to the STM market, has announced that STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell has agreed to conduct a trial of the SciVee video platform for several of its life sciences journals. The three-month trial is designed to… Read More
Authors of Panton Principles named SPARC Innovators - June 23, 2010
Four scientists who have authored the Panton Principles have been named SPARC innovators. These include Peter Murray-Rust, chemist at the University of Cambridge; Cameron Neylon, biochemist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England; Rufus Pollock, co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Mead Fellow in… Read More
