Springer launches new book series International Perspectives in Geography - February 13, 2014
STM publisher Springer and the Association of Japanese Geographers (AJG) have launched a new English-language book series entitled International Perspectives in Geography: AJG Library. Given the multidisciplinary nature of geography, the objective of the series is to provide a source of information not only for geographers,… Read More
The Max Planck Society secures access to 110,000 books from almost 170 years of publishing history for its researchers - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Springer has announced that the Max Planck Society has bought the entire Springer Book Archives (SBA) consisting of 110,000 individual titles. The purchase gives staff in 82 Max Planck institutes in Germany direct online access to the retro-digitised books via the SpringerLink platform (
Over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France gain access to ScienceDirect Freedom Collection - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Couperin Consortium have come to a new agreement that provides researchers at over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France access to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection content for five years. ScienceDirect is Elsevier' full-text database of more than… Read More
American Geophysical Union and Wiley launch new OA journal – Earth and Space Science - February 7, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced the creation of a new all open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. Marking AGU's second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth… Read More
Popke Huizinga appointed director of IOS Press - February 7, 2014
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Popke Huizinga as Director, effective February 1. The announcement was made by Dr. Einar Fredriksson during Huizinga's 20th anniversary celebration on February 4th. Dr. Fredriksson will stay involved in the day to day business of… Read More
Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition gain access to Elsevier’s research management and database solutions - February 5, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has expanded its collaboration with the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KoBSON). KoBSON members will now have access to Elsevier's journal back file content (research articles published before 1995), a collection of more than 4,000 ebooks and to research performance solution… Read More
