Dear Subscribers - June 26, 2009
STM Publishers and other print/publishing Services and Support Tools providers can now use the all new K-Store platform to post information across three sections - a Jobs section, a virtual storefronts directory and a print/publishing Read More
Court rules against Elsevier bid to block release of data in licensing contract with WSU - June 25, 2009
An injunction filed by STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, to block release of information included in a licensing contract between the publisher and Washington State University (WSU) was recently denied by a court in the state of Washington. A public-records request for contract terms had been submitted… Read More
Laurier University teams up with BioMed to launch institutional repository - June 25, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and Wilfrid Laurier University have announced the launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository. Laurier IR provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all members of the university community. Built on BioMed Central's 'Open Repository'… Read More
Springer and Sitronics Labs in deal for trial access to Springer eBooks and eJournals - June 25, 2009
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, and Sitronics Labs, the corporate research center of Sitronics, have announced the launch of a trial access to Springer eBooks and eJournals in Mathemathics and Statistics, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Engineering and Computer Science. With immediate effect, all Sitronics R&D… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Taiwan’s STPI sign MoU to support Science & Technology development - June 25, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI) on collaborative efforts to provide direction and support for Taiwan's Science & Technology (S&T) development. STPI is… Read More
Hindawi Publishing announces strong growth in Impact Factors of its journals - June 25, 2009
STM publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced strong growth in the Impact Factors of its journals in the recently released 2008 Journal Citation Report published by Thomson Scientific. The average Impact Factor of Hindawi's journals increased by more than 27 percent during the past year,… Read More
