Molly Raphael elected ALA president for 2011-12 - May 3, 2010
Molly Raphael, former director of libraries at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, has been elected president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA). James Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University, was elected treasurer, defeating Alan Kornblau, director of the Delray… Read More
Steven Hall named new Managing Director for IOP Publishing - May 3, 2010
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP Publishing), US, has announced the appointment of Steven Hall as the company’s new Managing Director. He replaces Jerry Cowhig, who is retiring. Having started out at Macmillan Press, Hall went on to Chadwyck-Healey as Sales and Marketing Director and then Managing… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 3, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ann Michael (STM Association Spring Conference: Are Publishers Listening?); Charlie Rapple ("UKSG 2010, Librarians and Open Access"); Colin Smith (How Are institutional research repositories relatively less important for the sciences?); and Isaac Fitzgerald (eBook Wars Continue). Blogspeak includes blog posts… Read More
Apple iPAd offers opportunities but with strings attached, publishers told - April 30, 2010
Magazine industry experts have reportedly been warned that while Apple's tablet computer, iPad, may offer several publishing opportunities, these are likely to come with strings attached. According to Juan Senor of the Innovation International Media Consulting Group, the arrival of the iPad and other tablets in… Read More
BioMed Central and MIT Libraries partner to deposit OA articles automatically using SWORD protocol - April 30, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. The deal is to develop an automated system that uses the latest technology to automatically populate MIT's digital repository, DSpace@MIT, with the official version of articles by MIT researchers that have… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and b-on in deal to provide 69 Portuguese institutions with site license access to Nature - April 30, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (b-on) have signed a three-year agreement to provide 69 institutions in Portugal with site license access to Nature. More than 300,000 researchers and students in Portugal will now gain access to research and news published… Read More
