STM welcomes new RIN report debating the future of scholarly communication - April 15, 2011
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the publication of the RIN report 'Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications.' Commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Publishing Research Consortium, the Wellcome Trust,… Read More
AIP Publishing and SharedBook announce distribution agreement - April 15, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has signed a distribution agreement with publishing innovator SharedBook which makes AIP's catalogue of highly cited journals available through SharedBook's AcademicPub platform. AIP Publishing claims to be the first physical science publisher to make its… Read More
AMA shares physician concerns about burdensome federal regulations with CMS - April 15, 2011
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently addressed a communication to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outlining the federal regulations physicians find most burdensome. The list of these burdensome regulations, along with recommendations to improve them, was obtained through an AMA survey of physicians… Read More
ALCTS to host webinar on digital preservation models at cultural heritage bodies - April 15, 2011
The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) is hosting a webinar titled 'Protecting Future Access Now: Models for Preserving Digitized Books and Other Content at Cultural Heritage Organizations.' The webinar will be held on April 27, 2011, at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm… Read More
McGraw-Hill Higher Education announces expanded availability of custom publishing platform - April 15, 2011
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced the expanded availability of McGraw-Hill Create, an innovative platform that gives instructors unprecedented control over and customisation of university classroom content in English, Italian and Spanish - and by the end of 2011, Chinese and Marathi.… Read More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt partners with and Children’s Hospital Boston to boost STEM education - April 15, 2011
Global education provider Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has announced a partnership with Children's Hospital Boston aimed at strengthening STEM education by showing its real-world applications and exploring how math and engineering concepts solve problems every day. Over the course of three days, Michael DiSpezio, author… Read More
