2010 among most challenging year for US book industry, says annual review - July 7, 2011
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, a business unit of ProQuest, and industry trade magazine Publishers Weekly have released the 2010-11 US Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review. The review is projected as the publishing industry's only complete consumer-based report integrating channel, motivation and category analysis… Read More
BioMed, BFI unveil integrated database and journal, ‘GigaScience’ - July 7, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and genomics institute BGI have announced the November 2011 launch of a new integrated database and journal called GigaScience. The product is projected to meet the needs of a new generation of biological and biomedical research as it enters the… Read More
EMpact Sales to provide sales representation service for the Ecological Society of America - July 7, 2011
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO, has announced that it has been chosen as sales agent for the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Under the agreement, EMpact will represent ESA products in Mexico, Central America, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Cuba and Brazil (excluding… Read More
NISO awarded Mellon Foundation grant for two standards incubation workshops - July 7, 2011
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has been awarded a $48,500 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund two standards incubation workshops, which it will lead with the Internet Archive, on the topic of E-Book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading. These meetings will be… Read More
Editors of ‘Croatian Medical Journal’ quit following differences with management board - July 7, 2011
Two editors-in-chief of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) reportedly resigned last week after what they say are years of obstruction by members of the management board that made running the journal practically impossible. CMJ recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. The journal… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center names Haralambos - July 7, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has named Haralambos "Babis" Marmanis as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Engineering. Marmanis is the author of two books - "Algorithms of the Intelligent Web" and "Spend Analysis: The Window into Strategic Sourcing" -… Read More
