Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 12, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (For Libraries the Future Is a Foreign Country); Barbara Fister (Making Open the Default Position | Peer to Peer Review); Limor Peer (Data repositories are expanding their role to ensure quality of reproducible research); David Crotty (Is Access… Read More
Elsevier acquires certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company - August 9, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has acquired certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company (GPC). The portfolio of 32 books includes petroleum engineering titles in drilling, pipeline, oil and gas, and safety. The GPC titles are for professionals in upstream oil and gas engineering and cover drilling,… Read More
Publishers in e-book antitrust case object to DOJ’s proposed punishment for Apple - August 9, 2013
The five publishers who settled with the federal government in the ebook pricing case have objected to the government's proposed injunction for Apple in a joint court filing Wednesday. They argue that the injunction modifies the settlements that they already reached with… Read More
Pearson to co-host workshop on digital publishing for education - August 9, 2013
Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, will co-host a workshop on digital publishing in education, EDUPUB, with the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), on October 29-30, 2013, in Boston. Co-chairs of the workshop are Paul Belfanti (Director, Content Architecture, Pearson North America) and… Read More
OMICS Publishing Group acquires OA journal, Immunome Research - August 9, 2013
OMICS Group Incorporation, a scientific organisation that drives the progress of research through scholarly open access journals, has announced an agreement with Nikolai Petrovsky Publishing for the acquisition of Immunome Research, an open access, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. The journal joins OMICS Group's list of more… Read More
Cloud Connect Chicago to align content tracks with competing cloud ecosystems - August 9, 2013
Cloud Connect Chicago, produced by UBM Tech, has announced a new conference programme built around the most competitive enterprise cloud stacks including OpenStack, CloudStack and Amazon Web Services. As the premier technology event for the cloud community, featuring the latest technologies, strategies and innovations, Cloud Connect… Read More
