Elsevier announces participation in SCOAP3 with journals Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B - July 19, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), a new model for open access publishing. Key SCOAP3 principles are perpetual open access, wide re-use licenses, and reduction and re-direction of subscription fees to centrally cover… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches latest version of transfer pricing solution - July 19, 2012
The Intellectual Property and Science division of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of the latest version of its end-to-end transfer pricing solution, Onesource Transfer Pricing. The tool is projected as the first comprehensive software and content suite to address the entire transfer pricing workflow… Read More
STM responds to EC communications on scientific information and ERA - July 19, 2012
STM, an international association of over 120 scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishers, has responded to the two communications (on the European Research Area and on access to scientific information) and the European Commission Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information. The communications were… Read More
EBSCO in deal with Elsevier to enhance e-book medical collection available via eBooks on EBSCOhost - July 19, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to significantly enhance the e-book medical collection available through eBooks on EBSCOhost. The agreement adds 965 health science titles to EBSCO’s medical e-book collection with over 580 of the titles… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and the American Geophysical Union announce publishing partnership - July 19, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced that it has been selected by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s leading society of Earth and space science, as its publishing partner for its portfolio of journals and books.… Read More
RSC announces £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin transition to Gold OA - July 19, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open Access (OA). 'Gold for Gold' is an innovative experiment to support the funder led evolution to Gold OA, by recognising institutes that… Read More