Publishing majors show increased revenues in 2010; sales of top 20 reach Euro 42 billion - June 20, 2011
Publishing revenues in 2010 have overtaken the total revenues for 2008 and 2009, according to the annual ranking of global publishing performance, compiled on behalf of Livres Hebdo, Buchreport, Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller. Sales of the top 10 publishers are now at €31 billion, having… Read More
Production version of mobile-optimised WorldCat Local is now available to libraries - June 20, 2011
Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that a production version of mobile-optimised WorldCat Local is now available to libraries following beta testing of the service that makes it possible for mobile users to discover items, see location, shelf status, call numbers, and… Read More
Serials Solutions and ARTstor partner to enable discovery of visual materials collections from the Summon service - June 20, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced an agreement with ARTstor to enable the discovery of the latter's visual materials collections from the Summon web-scale discovery service. ARTstor Digital Library provides more than… Read More
Taylor & Francis witnesses increased journal signings for 2011 - June 20, 2011
Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced that in 2011, nearly 100 journal titles came to T&F, building still further on the previous year's record of 70. Growth has been achieved through a mix of co-publishing arrangements, society contracts and purchase. The largest factor in this… Read More
AIP launches new Chinese language website to mark first anniversary of its Beijing office - June 20, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has launched a Chinese-language version of its website (http://china.aip.org), which gives Chinese researchers access to critical information about AIP in their own language. The new website marks the first anniversary of… Read More
Credo Reference Subject Collections to include Elsevier health sciences titles - June 20, 2011
Online reference service Credo Reference and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have signed an agreement that will put 45 health sciences titles in forthcoming Credo Reference Subject Collections. Credo's Subject Collections, which launched with eight collections in spring 2011, are compilations of leading subject-specific reference curated… Read More
