Pearson set to acquire GlobalEnglish Corporation for $90 million - May 28, 2012
Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has announced the acquisition of GlobalEnglish from its current ownership group for $90 million in cash. The transaction is subject to approval by GlobalEnglish’s shareholders. Founded in 1997 in California, GlobalEnglish is a provider of cloud-based, on-demand Business… Read More
BioMed Central presents OA Advocate of the Year award to University Librarian of KNUST - May 28, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, presented the Open Access Advocate of the Year award at the recent 6th Annual Research Awards ceremony held at Emirates Stadium, UK. Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 28, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Intellectual Access — It Takes More Than Accessibility); James Hartley (Titles are the hardest thing: How can we make them more effective?); Alok Jha (Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?); InTechWeb (To know… Read More
RSC chief welcomes BBSRC investment in UK bioscience - May 25, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Chief Executive Dr Robert Parker has welcomed the announcement of £250 million allocation by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as the first phase of a five year strategic investment programmes. The RSC chief said it was an… Read More
UCSF clears policy to make research papers freely accessible to public - May 25, 2012
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public. The move is projected to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict… Read More
Thieme releases Thieme Bookshelf app - May 25, 2012
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has released Thieme Bookshelf, the free companion app to Thieme's English language E-Book Store (ebookstore.thieme.com). The E-Book Store allows customers to choose from among hundreds of e-books offering the latest medical content. The bookshelf enables customers to easily browse… Read More
