NISO members elect new leadership for 2013-2014 term - June 21, 2013
The voting membership of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has elected new leadership for the 2013-2014 term that begins on July 1, 2013. Heather Reid, Director of Data Systems, Copyright Clearance Center, who previously served as Vice Chair, will become Chair of NISO for the… Read More
EQT Partners and GIC Special Investments agree to sell Springer Science+Business Media to BC Partners - June 20, 2013
EQT Partners AB (EQT) and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd (GIC) have agreed to sell their majority stake in Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), a global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher, to the private equity firm BC Partners Limited (BC Partners). The plans for an initial… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils 2013 edition of Journal Citation Reports - June 20, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the release of the 2013 edition of its Journal Citation Reports (JCR), an influential resource for evaluating peer-reviewed publications and the source of the annual Journal Impact Factors. The Journal Citation Reports provides an… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – GeoResJ - June 20, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new open access journal, GeoResJ. The journal will be the first open access only journal to join Elsevier's earth and planetary science journals portfolio. GeoResJ aims to provide a forum for rapid publication of top… Read More
Serials Solutions to index metadata from 8,000 ibooks.ru e-book titles - June 20, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with the ibooks.ru to index metadata from 8,000 e-book titles covering educational, scientific and business topics. ibooks.ru is an e-library project founded in 2009 by leading Russian publishing houses Piter Publishing House and BHV-Petersburg in… Read More
Liverpool University Press to make scholarly monograph content available via OUP’s UPSO platform - June 20, 2013
Liverpool University Press has announced a partnership with the Oxford University Press to launch Liverpool Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform, taking advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Liverpool… Read More
