Taylor & Francis and Semantico update World Who’s Who resource - December 21, 2010
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, and publisher Taylor & Francis have completed an update to World Who's Who. The expanded online resource includes current and hard-to-find biographical information on more than 60,000 of the most gifted and influential men and women in all fields.… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - December 21, 2010
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Study of Open Access Publishing project to present findings of two-year EC funded study on OA publishing - December 20, 2010
The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project is set to present the results of its two-year European Commission funded examination of open access publishing at an open symposium on January 13, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. Over the two-year study duration, the SOAP project performed… Read More
AAP welcomes Chinese commitment to bolster intellectual property enforcement - December 20, 2010
Tom Allen, President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), has applauded the Chinese government's expressed intention to investigate complaints by academic journal publishers concerning online piracy of academic journals. He has also praised China's commitment to 'take prompt action at the conclusion of… Read More
China forms new state-owned publishing group - December 20, 2010
Three state-owned textbook publishers and two other companies have merged to form a new Chinese publishing group. The move is the latest to reform the country's state-owned publication business. The new company, China Education Publishing & Media Group Ltd, was formed from the People's Education Press, the Higher Education… Read More
Online tool developed to quantify cultural trends over several centuries - December 20, 2010
Researchers have created a new approach to scholarship, using approximately 4 percent of all books ever published as a digital "fossil record" of human culture, it has been stated in the latest issue of the journal Science. By tracking the frequency with which words appear in books over time, scholars… Read More
