Tetrahedron Symposium launches virtual conference - June 15, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will host the Tetrahedron Virtual Conference. The event is projected as a real-time virtual platform offering low cost online access to the high quality content to be presented at the Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris on June 24-26,… Read More
New centre for research and development in open access communications announced - June 15, 2009
The Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team at the University of Nottingham has announced the formation of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC). Based at the University of Nottingham, CRC will house the portfolio of open access projects, services and initiatives… Read More
Swets awarded new ISO 9001:2008 certificate - June 15, 2009
Swets has announced that it has recently been awarded a new ISO 9001:2008 certificate, covering all of its operating offices worldwide. The ISO 9001 certificate has been revised in order to ensure that organisations keep up with recent developments in management system practices. Swets has been… Read More
Ziff Davis Enterprise announces new appointments, strengthens sales, marketing and content teams - June 15, 2009
Integrated media firm Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE), US, has hired three key executives: Matthew Sweeney, former CEO of the Computerworld and InfoWorld brands at International Data Group (IDG); sales executive Peggy Schecter of United Business Media's TechWeb; and Eric Lundquist, formerly Content Director, New Media at… Read More
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online - June 15, 2009
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Stuart Shieber (Are the Harvard open-access policies unfair to publishers?); Philip Davis (Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars); Casey Johnston (Tag networks on social sites may predict next Internet fad); and David Crotty (Bing and Wave: New Technologies… Read More
OA to scientific and scholarly information can save the Netherlands EUR 133 million annually, says study - June 12, 2009
If every scientific and scholarly article were publicly available, it would save the Netherlands EUR 133 million a year, according to a SURFfoundation study. The figure is given by Australian economist Prof. John Houghton in a study that SURFfoundation presented to the Dutch Ministry of Education,… Read More
