Maney Publishing partners with digital preservation services to secure e-journal content - July 6, 2010
Academic Publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has joined the CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico digital preservation services to guarantee the long-term security of its e-journal content. Maney currently has more than 100 e-journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences and humanities. The partnerships seek to enhance the… Read More
Emerald acquires Review of Marketing Research book series - July 6, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has acquired Review of Marketing Research, and will publish the next volume of this book series in early 2011. Founding Editor Dr Naresh K. Malhotra has been recognised as one of the most eminent scholars in… Read More
Yerevan named World Book Capital 2012 - July 6, 2010
Yerevan was named as the 'World Book Capital 2012' at the conclusion of the selection committee meeting, which was held on July 2, 2010 at UNESCO's Paris headquarters. The city of Yerevan was selected for the quality and the variety of its detailed, realistic, grass-roots programme, focusing on universal issues,… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 6, 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
Three million orphan books in Europe, says European Commission report - July 5, 2010
The European Commission has published a new report according to which at least 3 million orphan books exist in Europe - works which are still in copyright but cannot be digitised because the rights holders cannot be traced to grant permission. The study gathered responses from… Read More
Public and private sector leaders meet to discuss copyright in the internet economy - July 5, 2010
The Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently co-hosted a symposium to discuss the relationship between copyright policy, creativity and innovation in the Internet economy. The US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke together with leaders from… Read More
