Julie Boyd-Reynolds named new Regional Sales Manager of EBSCO Australia - October 19, 2009
EBSCO Australia has announced the appointment of Julie Boyd-Reynolds as its new regional sales manager, to be based at the company’s Melbourne office. Boyd-Reynolds has 30 years of industry experience, including the last 17 with EBSCO, both in the UK and Australia. In her new role,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 19, 2009
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are Michael Clarke (The 2009 STM Frankfurt Conference); Kristine Roa (Digital Publishing and Libraries Through Kindle and Sony Reader); Myrmecos (On the future of scientific communication); and Kent Anderson (An Old-Age Problem Among Reviewers?). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog… Read More
STM releases new report on scientific and scholarly journal publishing - October 16, 2009
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has published ‘The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing’, a follow-up to the 2006 report, ‘Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments’. ‘The STM Report’ is updated and released once… Read More
OCLC offers Metadata Services for Publishers to enhance title metadata - October 16, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced a new service that provides added value to libraries and publishers by enhancing and delivering data that can work in multiple contexts and systems. The new service, Metadata Services for Publishers, takes publishers' ONIX… Read More
Wiley and Chemical Industry Press to launch co-branded imprint - October 16, 2009
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and Chemical Industry Press (CIP) have signed an agreement to publish a co-branded Wiley-CIP Series Imprint. The agreement was signed at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with attendance from representatives from the General Administration of Press and Publication – the… Read More
Springer to publish official journal of the International Symbiosis Society - October 16, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish Symbiosis, the official journal of the International Symbiosis Society (ISS), effective October 2009. Publication at Springer will begin with Volume 49, Issue 1. Professor David Richardson of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, will… Read More
