Springer announces publishing partnership with French intensive care society - January 12, 2011
STM publisher Springer is set to publish two journals for the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF), a French intensive care society. Starting in 2011, Springer will publish Réanimation, formerly published by Elsevier, and a new open access journal in English… Read More
JISC conference 2011 to focus on how digital technologies can bring financial savings to universities and colleges - January 12, 2011
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK, has announced that the JISC annual conference in Liverpool is now open for registration with a packed programme on the theme of 'financial challenges, digital opportunities'. The conference, scheduled for March 14 - 15, 2011, will focus on how… Read More
New version of ACM Digital Library provides efficient access, increased interactivity and enriched content - January 12, 2011
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has released a new version of the ACM Digital Library. Building on the breadth and depth of this renowned repository of digital knowledge, the new site simplifies usability, extends connections, and expands content with a wide… Read More
ProQuest adds books from Dutch library to Early European Books project - January 12, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, UK, has announced that the company will digitise more than 30,000 rare early books from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, capturing every volume in high-resolution colour scans. This is the third major European national library… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Materials Research Society to launch new journal – MRS Communications - January 12, 2011
Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, and the Materials Research Society (MRS) have announced a partnership to publish the journal, MRS Communications. MRS Communications is a new journal focused on rapid communications and high-quality, high-impact review… Read More
More research institutions sign up for Multi-Science Publishing’s 2011 Special Package - January 12, 2011
Publisher Multi-Science Publishing, UK, has announced that Virginia Commonwealth University, Curtin University of Technology and Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University are among the latest additions to the growing list of research institutions that have signed up for Multi-Science Publishing's 2011 Special Package. The 2011 Special Package… Read More