Thomson Reuters and Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan honour country’s leading scientific researchers and journals - October 15, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters joined the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan to honour the country's leading scientific researchers and journals, across a variety of disciplines. The 'Perspectives of Science and Development in Azerbaijan' award ceremony… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair witnesses ten percent growth in participation/networking of international content industries - October 15, 2012
The Frankfurt Book Fair ended October 14, 2012, with a small increase in visitor numbers on last year, while demonstrating the 'courage and innovative power of Europe, and of the international publishing industry'. The conference and seminar programme of the Frankfurt Academy recorded a ten percent… Read More
Elsevier Australia releases updated edition of mental health nursing textbook - October 15, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier Australia has announced the publication of a revised third edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, a textbook by Elder, Evans and Nizette. As the Australian government attempts to address shortages in the mental health workforce, specifically mental health nursing, and expand the… Read More
RSC’s Dr Antony Williams honoured for his work on the ChemSpider platform - October 15, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that Dr Antony Williams, VP for Strategic Development and Head of the Cheminformatics group, for the RSC has been honoured by Microsoft Research for his outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive computing, especially for his work on… Read More
Metapress unveils the Essential platform to support small publishers - October 15, 2012
MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced the Metapress Essential platform to support smaller publishers. This new platform allows small publishers to receive the same features that enable large publishers to launch an online presence and manage content. The Essential platform is part… Read More
LCA welcomes court decision in favour of HathiTrust library using digitised works - October 15, 2012
The US' Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) has welcomed Judge Harold Baer's decision saying that the HathiTrust Digital Library's (HDL) use of digitised works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act. Baer's ruling not only allows HathiTrust to continue serving scholars and the print disabled,… Read More
