Google, publishers seek more time to reach agreement to digitise books - June 2, 2011
A judge in New York has agreed to give lawyers of Google and the book industry more time to decide how to proceed after he rejected their deal to create a massive online library. Federal Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan said that it was fine… Read More
New Zealand to be Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 - June 2, 2011
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that New Zealand will be the Guest of Honour at nkfurt Book Fair 2012, scheduled for October 10 - 14, 2012. Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Juergen Boos, and Chief Executive of New Zealand's Ministry for Culture and Heritage,… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal on paleopathology - June 2, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal, International Journal of Paleopathology, the official journal of the Paleopathology Association. Published quarterly, the first issue of the journal is now freely available to view online on SciVerse ScienceDirect. Print copies of the… Read More
SAGE journals to be available in mobile-optimised format - June 2, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that their entire collection of online journal sites will soon be available in a mobile-optimised format, taking advantage of the HighWire Mobile Web interface. Readers visiting a SAGE journal site on their iPhone, Android or other smartphone device will automatically be… Read More
BQFJ’s QScience.com to preserve journals with CLOCKSS Archive - June 2, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) is preserving their journals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries across the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, BQFJ seeks to ensure that its… Read More
Pensoft publishes data publishing policies and guidelines for biodiversity data - June 2, 2011
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced their data publishing policies and guidelines for biodiversity data. The move is in response to the increasing demands from institutions and scientists to open scientific data to anyone who would be interested to use them. The core of the… Read More
