Scientific American appoints new executive editor and design director - April 20, 2010
Science magazine Scientific American has announced the appointments of executive editor Fred Guterl and design director Michael Mrak. Fred Guterl assumes the role of executive editor and brings to Scientific American more than two decades of editorial experience. He has worked, among other titles, for Discover… Read More
Emerald names Valeria Garcia as VP Latin America - April 20, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the appointment of Valeria Garcia as Vice President: Latin America. In her new position, Garcia will focus on strengthening Emerald’s sales support to new and existing customers in the region, as well as developing… Read More
STM challenges JISC over validity of open access advocacy - April 19, 2010
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the Publishers Association (PA) and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) have expressed concern about the validity of open access (OA) claims made by recent advocacy deriving from the UK Joint Information Systems… Read More
Public access lobbyists seeking support for passage of US bill - April 19, 2010
US Congress Representatives Doyle, Waxman, Wasserman-Schultz, Harper, Boucher and Rohrabacher recently introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). The bill is expected to ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by 11 US federal agencies. All supporters of public access… Read More
Israel bans Apple’s iPad over Wi-Fi concerns - April 19, 2010
Israel recently announced a new regulation which bans imports of the iPad, Apple Inc.'s latest product, citing concerns that the gadget's wireless signals could disrupt other devices. Customs officials have recently confiscated about 10 of the lightweight tablet computers. The ban does not allow anyone, including… Read More
Reed Business Information concludes the divestment of US controlled circulation magazines - April 19, 2010
Publisher Reed Elsevier has announced that it has concluded divestment of US controlled circulation magazine titles. In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced that the RBI-US controlled circulation magazines and certain other print titles, representing about 45 percent of the revenues of RBI-US, were to be divested.… Read More
