Sheridan announces sale of The Dingley Press - October 14, 2013
The Sheridan Group, a print, publishing services and technology provider to publishers of scholarly journals, magazines, books and catalogues, has entered into an agreement to sell its long-run catalogue business based at The Dingley Press in Lisbon, Maine. The Dingley Press will be sold to… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 14, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Seeking a Path toward Open Access for Books); Ernesto Priego (Predatory journals and defective peer review are general academic problems, not just open access problems); Kent Anderson (Link Miser — Why the NLM Links to PubMed Central Versions… Read More
Academic Libraries in England now able to access EBSCO eBooks - October 11, 2013
EBSCO eBooks™ from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has been chosen as an e-book supplier for higher education libraries in England. Members who participate in this joint consortia agreement will be able to select e-books from EBSCO's extensive collection including nearly 500,000 e-books and audiobooks. This agreement… Read More
Thieme Bookshelf app for Android now available - October 11, 2013
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced that the Thieme Bookshelf app is now available for download to Android devices via Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.impelsys.thieme.android.ebookstore&hl=en. Android users can choose from among hundreds of Thieme's e-books, quickly and easily downloading them to their… Read More
Two leading organisations implement ALMs using PLOS open source app - October 11, 2013
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that two leading organisations are implementing Article-Level Metrics (ALM) using the PLOS open source app. In 2009, PLOS became the first (and claims to remain the only) publisher to launch an open source Article-Level Metrics (ALM) app to… Read More
Turpin Distribution partners with Publishing Technology for unified global fulfilment system - October 11, 2013
Content solutions provider Publishing Technology has announced a partnership with international fulfilment service provider to the publishing industry, Turpin Distribution, to implement the sales and distribution application of its flagship enterprise product advance. The new system, designed for both print and digital content, will enable… Read More
