Springer opens new sales offices in Istanbul - September 12, 2012
STM publisher Springer recently expanded its international operations to include Turkey. The new offices in Istanbul have been in operation since June, and will be officially opened by Peter Hendriks, President Publishing Business Media at Springer, on September 13, 2012. The new offices will be managed… Read More
RSC pledges £1 million aid for UK chemical science researchers to publish OA papers - September 12, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has recently pledged £1 million to aid UK chemical science researchers to publish open access (OA) papers in RSC journals. This gesture has now been followed by the UK government, with an announcement on that it will invest £10 million… Read More
University of East London goes live with Ex Libris’ Alma library management solution - September 12, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of East London (UEL) is now live with the Ex Libris Alma library management solution. Situated in Stratford and Docklands, within Europe's largest regeneration area, the University of East London is among more… Read More
Cambridge University Press and European Political Science Association set to launch new journal - September 12, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, and the European Political Science Association (EPSA) have announced a partnership to publish a new peer-reviewed political science journal from 2013. The new journal of the EPSA, Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM) will be an international political science… Read More
Landmark Papers on Higgs Boson freely available online on ScienceDirect - September 11, 2012
Physics Letters B, Elsevier's flagship journal in high energy physics, has announced that the observations of the long-sought Higgs particle, hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, have been published. The papers 'Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125… Read More
Publisher-plaintiffs to appeal court ruling in Georgia State University copyright case - September 11, 2012
Publishers Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press USA and SAGE have announced their intention to appeal the May 11, 2012 decision in the copyright case with Georgia State University (GSU). The three, who are members of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), have stated that as… Read More
