CCC partners with The Charlesworth Group to expand services into Chinese language rights licensing - February 16, 2012
The Charlesworth Group has announced that it will be working with the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) to help the latter expand its services into Chinese language rights licensing. The Charlesworth Group and CCC will help Chinese publishers reach new global secondary rights markets and better… Read More
Five American Psychiatric Publishing journals now being produced through Dartmouth Journal Services - February 16, 2012
Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has announced that five American Psychiatric Publishing (APP) journals are now being produced through DJS. The journals are: The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatric Services,… Read More
Springer and Korea Concrete Institute partner to publish OA journal - February 16, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Korea Concrete Institute (KCI) have announced a partnership to publish the International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials (IJCSM). As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio, available on www.springerlink.com.… Read More
Ovid to provide access to current, non-embargoed New England Journal of Medicine content - February 16, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has entered into an expanded distribution agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Under the deal, Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, will be the only medical research aggregator to distribute current, non-embargoed NEJM content… Read More
OCLC Research and ALISE name recipients of 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grants - February 16, 2012
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Abdulhussain Mahdi and Arash Joorabchi of the University of Limerick, Laura Saunders and Mary Wilkins Jordan of Simmons College, and Carolyn Hank of McGill University… Read More
UK e-books sales rising but sales values falling, says Books & Consumers survey - February 15, 2012
E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume, according to the latest Books & Consumers survey. With the lower price points of e-books versus their print counterparts, the value of book sales is shrinking, the report further says. The survey is an… Read More
