STM applauds Spanish government efforts to improve Spanish science - May 20, 2011
The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the balanced legislation in the new Spanish Science Law. The Plenary of the House of Representatives adopted the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation by 289 votes in favour, 3 against and no… Read More
Kindle books sales overtake print book sales at Amazon.com - May 20, 2011
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced that it is now selling more Kindle e-books than print books. Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later, in November 2007, it introduced the Kindle and began selling e-books. By July… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry adds RDF functionality to ChemSpider database - May 20, 2011
The Royal Society of Chemistry's chemical database ChemSpider has added RDF functionality to its interface, in collaboration with the University of Southampton's School of Chemistry. The availability of RDF is said to allow the database records to be found and understood by semantic web tools. This… Read More
Springer in deal with Dai Nippon Printing for POD solutions in Japan - May 20, 2011
STM publisher Springer has announced an agreement with Japan-based Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP). Under the deal, DNP will provide single-copy minimum print-on-demand (POD) solutions for Springer titles delivered to the Japanese market. DNP will also handle the delivery logistics to local distributors, libraries and… Read More
SAGE brings out inaugural issue of OA journal, SAGE Open - May 20, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE recently published its first articles in SAGE Open, an open access journal featuring content from the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities. SAGE Open supports the growing number of authors who require their articles to be freely available… Read More
EBSCO Information Services becomes NASIG’s first organisational member - May 20, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, has been accepted as the first organisational member of The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. (NASIG). In this capacity, EBSCO will support the continuing education on serials, electronic resources and standards issues that affect libraries, publishers and vendors. As… Read More
