IPG, Amazon reach agreement on sale of e-book titles - May 28, 2012
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, and books distributor Independent Publisher's Guild (IPG) have reportedly announced an agreement. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move comes three months after Amazon pulled e-book titles off its site from clients of… Read More
Tools to assess research impact at the article level gaining ground - May 28, 2012
The impact of academic research has long been measured using citations, often with the Journal Impact Factor being used to assess individual publications within it, it has been observed. However, the Impact Factor is a journal level - not an article level - metric and, as academic publishing and the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health’s UpToDate featured in current issue of the Global Public Health journal - May 28, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that UpToDate, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, was featured in the current issue of the Global Public Health journal. The article, Health care workers in Africa access a broad range of topics using evidence-based… Read More
Pearson set to acquire GlobalEnglish Corporation for $90 million - May 28, 2012
Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has announced the acquisition of GlobalEnglish from its current ownership group for $90 million in cash. The transaction is subject to approval by GlobalEnglish’s shareholders. Founded in 1997 in California, GlobalEnglish is a provider of cloud-based, on-demand Business… Read More
BioMed Central presents OA Advocate of the Year award to University Librarian of KNUST - May 28, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, presented the Open Access Advocate of the Year award at the recent 6th Annual Research Awards ceremony held at Emirates Stadium, UK. Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 28, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Intellectual Access — It Takes More Than Accessibility); James Hartley (Titles are the hardest thing: How can we make them more effective?); Alok Jha (Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?); InTechWeb (To know… Read More
