ALPSP names BMJ’s Peter Ashman as Chair Elect - May 5, 2014
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has appointed Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at BMJ, as Chair Elect of its governing Council with immediate effect. Peter will become Chair from 2015. He will succeed Simon Ross, Managing Director, Journals at Cambridge University Press. … Read More
KB/Libris-libraries join WorldCat - May 5, 2014
The National Library of Sweden (KB) has signed an agreement to join WorldCat, one of the world's largest library catalogues, operated by OCLC, after seven years of negotiation. During the entire negotiation period KB maintained that data in LIBRIS should be freely… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 5, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (The Evolving Ecosystem for Journals Publishing); Melinda Baldwin (Is the Peer Review Process for Scientific Papers Broken?); Frederik Verleysen and Tim Engels (The internationalisation of academic publishing points to distinctly different audiences for scholarly books); David Crotty (Altmetrics:… Read More
AAP welcomes USTR 2014 Special 301 Report - May 2, 2014
The Association of American Publishers, the largest trade association representing the US book and journal publishing industry, has welcomed the release of the US Trade Representative (USTR) 2014 Special 301 Report and the countries listed. AAP expresses concern, however, that the harm stemming from Canada's undefined… Read More
Evidence Based Preclinical Medicine launches as part of Wiley Open Access publishing program - May 2, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Evidence Based Preclinical Medicine (EBPM) as part of the Wiley Open Access publishing program. EBPM is the first journal dedicated to publishing systematic review protocols and systematic reviews which summarise data from animal studies on… Read More
ProQuest acquires Pi2 Solutions - May 2, 2014
ProQuest has acquired UK-based Pi2 Solutions, an industry leader in product literature databases, workflow tools and related outsourcing services for global pharmaceutical companies. The company plans to align Pi2 with its ProQuest Dialog corporate information service to create an integrated solution for pharmacovigilance and expand ProQuest's… Read More
