Swets Gateway signs sales and marketing agreement with MA Healthcare - April 14, 2009
Swets Gateway, the special publisher services division of Swets, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with UK-based MA Healthcare. Under the deal, Swets Gateway will act as the exclusive sales and marketing representative for MA Healthcare in the Asia/Pacific region. The agreement covers Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand,… Read More
ProQuest encourages libraries to explore advocacy programme tools and services - April 14, 2009
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, is celebrating National Library Week by encouraging libraries to take advantage of the company's popular advocacy programme. The programme includes tools and services that help librarians connect with their user communities, free database access and scholarship support for library… Read More
Design Science releases MathDaisy 1.0 - April 14, 2009
Enterprise software vendor Design Science, Inc., US, has announced the release of MathDaisy 1.0. MathDaisy enhances Microsoft's Save As DAISY add-in for Microsoft Word to convert Word documents containing math notation to DAISY Digital Talking Books, ready to be read by students, teachers, engineers, and scientists… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 14, 2009
The Fourth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Colin Smith (Concern about accepted manuscripts and the possibility of open access publishing); Gavin Baker (NIH Open-Access Policy Turns 1 Year Old); Kent Anderson (Are e-Books Already Mainstream?); David Clover (Online Research Papers Database - ORO); and Roddy MacLeod (Top… Read More
Downloads predict impact factor of scientific articles, says JOV analysis - April 13, 2009
While the number of times a scientific article is cited by other articles is currently the gold standard for ranking its impact, online publishing offers another measure: the number of unique downloads. A recent analysis in the online Journal of Vision (JOV) finds that downloads are… Read More
Outsell predicts reduced growth for information industry - April 13, 2009
Media industry-focused research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has issued reduced growth projections for the information industry owing to the global recession. The new report, titled What is Good Performance in 2009?, presents revised projections for eight sectors. According to the report, anticipated growth for… Read More
