College faculty prefer print textbooks to digital version, says BISG study - April 18, 2012
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) recently conducted the 'Faculty Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education', a survey of college faculty perceptions toward classroom materials. The survey found that professors continue to equate their own and their students' successes in the classroom to the use of… Read More
Royal College of Physicians partners with HighWire to build and host its journal, Clinical Medicine - April 18, 2012
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has announced a new partnership with HighWire Press to build and host its flagship, peer reviewed journal, Clinical Medicine. Advanced features on the HighWire ePublishing platform, which include seamless cross-linking between articles and journals, increased user engagement, customisable email… Read More
MetaPress announces three new levels of service for publishers - April 18, 2012
MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced three targeted product offerings to meet the needs of publishers, regardless of size. The three levels of service - Tailor-Made, Standard, and Essential - target the particular needs of large and small publishers. … Read More
Cambridge University Press launches The China Library - April 18, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), UK, has announced the launch of a new publishing venture, The Cambridge China Library. Launched at the London Book Fair, The Cambridge China Library gives China the chance to speak for itself, in unprecedented detail, about its long and fascinating… Read More
Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available at academic institutions worldwide - April 18, 2012
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the availability of the Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a multi-year global digitisation and publishing programme. Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs and more –… Read More
Elsevier and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press collaborate to publish Collected Works of H.S. Tsien - April 17, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of the Collected Works of H.S. Tsien (1938-1956) in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press (SJTUP). Tsien, considered by many to be the greatest Chinese scientist of the past 60 years, began his research in aerodynamics while… Read More
