Elsevier Australia releases textbook on health science statistics - March 18, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier Australia has announced a new local publication titled Vital Statistics: an introduction to health science statistics. The book is projected to help the nation's health science students to understand the whys, hows and whens of health science statistics. The book seeks to establish… Read More
Taylor & Francis Open Access survey explores authors views on OA publishing and their level of involvement - March 18, 2013
Taylor & Francis' Research and Business Intelligence Department recently conducted a survey of the Taylor & Francis author community for their views on Open Access publishing and their level of involvement with it. This survey, circulated in the final weeks of 2012 leading into early 2013,… Read More
OUP named publisher of the year at UK booksellers’ awards - March 15, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has been named Publisher of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony on March 13, 2013. It was the eighth time in nine years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award at the Conference for Academic, Professional… Read More
Springer and The American Meteorological Society partner for electronic distribution of book titles - March 14, 2013
STM publisher Springer has entered into a partnership with The American Meteorological Society (AMS) for the electronic distribution of their book titles for the next three years on SpringerLink. The agreement includes the distribution of monographs, textbooks and popular science titles as… Read More
CAS and IOP Publishing in deal to publish proceedings from ICPEAC - March 14, 2013
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have signed an agreement to publish the conference proceedings from the 28th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) on an open access basis. ICPEAC, scheduled to be held… Read More
Scientific American Mind launches new destination for mind-and-brain-themed blogs - March 14, 2013
Scientific American Mind has launched a new destination for mind-and-brain-themed blogs, blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind. The Scientific American Mind blogs will concentrate on psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. Six new blogs will join the 11 existing mind-and-brain blogs on the Scientific American Mind Network. All… Read More
