BMJ Group expands Indian presence with new MD, awards programme - February 25, 2013
Healthcare information provider BMJ Group, UK, has announced further investments in its India operations. The company will recruit a Managing Director to head up its growing workforce in the country. Also, in the first quarter of 2014, it will be launching the BMJ Awards India, to… Read More
University of Chicago Press to make scholarly monograph content available via OUP’s UPSO platform - February 25, 2013
The University of Chicago Press will partner with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform taking advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with the cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Chicago Scholarship Online will launch in… Read More
Submissions for 2013 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards called for - February 25, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE and the British Educational Research Association (BERA) have announced the opening of submissions for the 2013 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards. The awards support and encourage excellence in the application of research in practice. They are open to anyone who has used research… Read More
AMS appoints Robert M. Harington as Associate Executive Director, Publishing - February 25, 2013
The American Mathematical Society has announced the appointment of Robert M. Harington as Associate Executive Director, Publishing. In his new position, Harington will be responsible for driving strategic growth and management of the AMS publishing program for books, journals and electronic products. Harington comes to… Read More
The Sheridan Group releases next generation publishing solution for managing offset and digitally produced books and journals - February 25, 2013
Print, publishing services and technology solutions provider The Sheridan Group has released Sheridan Select, a next generation publishing solution for managing offset and digitally produced books and journals. A feature-rich architecture gives book and journal publishers a single point for order entry, significantly streamlining the process… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 25, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (It's FASTR — Is It Bettr?); Paul Jump (Peers lament open access 'confusion'); Phil Davis (Rewarding Reviewers: Money, Prestige, or Some of Both?); Alex Marsh (Going solo or joining someone else's show: multi-author blogs as a way to… Read More