Professional publishing journal revenues grew 3 percent in 2010, says Simba Report - January 20, 2011
Media industry and forecast analysis firm Simba Information, US, has released a report titled 'Global Professional Publishing 2009-2010'. According to the report, scientific, technical, medical, legal and business journals - an $8.9 billion market that represents over 20 percent of the entire professional publishing industry -… Read More
Microsoft set to host workshop on multimedia and visualisation innovations for science - January 20, 2011
The International Council for Scientific & Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that its Winter Meeting, scheduled for February 6-7, 2011, will be followed by a Workshop, the theme for which will be 'Multimedia and Visualisation Innovations for Science', on February 8, 2011. The Workshop will be… Read More
Medical publishers urged to continue free journal access to low income nations via HINARI - January 20, 2011
Richard Smith, a former editor of the BMJ, and Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, have argued that medical publishers must 'continue to provide free access to all of their journals in all of the 64 low-income countries signed up… Read More
JISC, Higher Education Academy to unveil licensing tool for open content - January 20, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funding a support project on intellectual property rights (IPR) and licensing issues for Open Educational Resources in partnership with the Higher Education Academy. The latest addition to the organisations' suite of support resources is a new tool… Read More
Emerald journals now available for preservation in Global LOCKSS Network - January 20, 2011
The LOCKSS Program, a unit of the Stanford University Libraries, has announced that journal titles from academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, are now available for preservation in the Global LOCKSS Network. Emerald has reportedly committed more… Read More
EBSCO to provide enhanced integration and linking services to over 23,000 e-journals - January 20, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it has increased the number of e-journals available for end-to-end integration and enhanced linking to more than 23,000. With this move, EBSCO seeks to simplify e-resource management for those journals subscribed to through EBSCO. With end-to-end integration,… Read More
