Brill acquires scholarly publishing activities of HES & DE GRAAF Publishers - December 30, 2013
Scholarly publisher Koninklijke Brill N.V. has reached an agreement for the acquisition of all scholarly publishing activities of HES & DE GRAAF Publishers B.V (Houten, NL). The take-over will take effect on 1 January 2014. Under the deal, Brill will acquire an English language list… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 30, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Trusting Scientists and Science Journalists — A New Poll Suggests the Public is Skeptical); Hilda Bastian (Open access 2013: A year of gaining momentum); Jeremy Greenfield (Predictions For Book Publishing In 2014: Cutting-Room Floor Edition); and Mark Carrigan… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management - December 27, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of open access journal, Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management. Petra Klinge, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Neurosurgery has recently seen a… Read More
LWW journals win eight awards in four categories at 2013 FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards - December 27, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) medical and nursing journals won eight awards in four categories at the 2013 FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards. Taking home the top spot in the "Best Full Issue BtoB Category,"… Read More
ARL and Ithaka S+R’s free web seminar to bring together leaders of seven of the eight cases profiled in the Searching for Sustainability report - December 27, 2013
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part. As grant funding rarely covers ongoing operations, the larger challenge is to develop a successful strategy to make sure the… Read More
UBM Tech appoints Kim Davis as Editor-in-Chief of SaaS in the Enterprise - December 27, 2013
Business information provider UBM Tech, US, has announced that Kim Davis has been promoted to editor-in-chief of SaaS in the Enterprise, the company's community-oriented site that keeps readers up-to-date about applications in the cloud. Davis has worked as managing editor of SaaS in the Enterprise… Read More
