Springer sets up regional base for Middle East at Dubai’s IMPZ - May 3, 2010
International Media Production Zone (IMPZ), a member of TECOM Investments, has reportedly announced that STM publisher Springer, Germany, is to establish its Middle East headquarters at IMPZ in Dubai. Springer publishes over 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 books every year. The opening of the new… Read More
iPad to have positive impact on mobile operators, says Pyramid report - May 3, 2010
Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com), US, has released a report that analyses the impact of Apple’s iPad on mobile operators. The report says mobile operators will be among the biggest beneficiaries of the iPad's… Read More
GenomeQuest to host IP seminar with Thomson Reuters - May 3, 2010
GenomeQuest, a US-based provider of sequence data management (SDM) products, has announced plans to host a free IP seminar with information provider Thomson Reuters, US, on June 10 in South San Francisco. The seminar, Web-based Searching for Patent Information Across Global Sequence Databases, will be held… Read More
CIG Media Group offers financial aid for cancer support groups - May 3, 2010
Oncology journals publisher CIG Media Group, US, has announced that it has made a financial endowment to aid local clinical cancer research, and foundations such as the ThriveWell Cancer Foundation that support them. The endowment is aimed to help groups such as Jake Remembered and START,… Read More
Maney Publishing expands archive offerings - May 3, 2010
Publisher Maney Publishing, UK has announced that over one-third of its journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences and humanities now have full archives available online following a retrodigitisation programme. The digital archives feature up to 80 years of journal content. Over 1,500 issues of… Read More
Molly Raphael elected ALA president for 2011-12 - May 3, 2010
Molly Raphael, former director of libraries at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, has been elected president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA). James Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University, was elected treasurer, defeating Alan Kornblau, director of the Delray… Read More
