Cambridge Publishing Society launched, various publishers enroll - March 15, 2010
Cambridge University Press (CUP), Lightning Source, Salt and HarperCollins have joined the recently launched Cambridge Publishing Society (CAMPUS). The organisation is a counter to the Oxford Publishing Society, OPUS, and has been given initial sponsorship money by CUP. CAMPUS is for anyone… Read More
IOP Publishing claims positive feedback on new iPhone apps - March 15, 2010
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that its two new iPhone applications - physicsworld.com newsflash app and the IOPscience express app – have received positive responses. Both these applications were launched in January 2010. The physicsworld.com newsflash app, which has had… Read More
OCLC, Gale partnership to expand access to databases through WorldCat Local - March 15, 2010
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and e-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, have signed an agreement to index the latter's flagship full-text periodical databases in WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local is the service that combines the cooperative power… Read More
Thieme Publishing announces second edition of Color Atlas of Pathophysiology - March 15, 2010
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that the second edition of the Color Atlas of Pathophysiology includes the latest scientific information on molecular and genetic causes of disease as well as promising therapies. Additions to this fully updated edition include current information on acute… Read More
SpringerImages exceeds 2 million images mark - March 15, 2010
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced that its online image database SpringerImages (www.SpringerImages.com), which launched in July 2009 with 1.5 million images, now includes over 2 million images. SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images, tables, charts and graphs… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 15, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Nicole (FAM for Public Libraries?); Philip Davis (Rewriting the History of the Open Access Debate); RePEc Blog (Is there an alphabetical bias citations?); David Crotty (Science Blogging as a Public Outreach Tool — Unfulfilled Potential or Unrealistic Expectation?); and Martin… Read More
