Poor practices by online sites leads to loss of revenue and rights, says study - May 1, 2009
iCopyright, a US-based provider of intelligent copyright systems for digital content, has published a study according to which online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'Article Tools' on their web pages. Article… Read More
Ovid expands medical eBook offerings - May 1, 2009
Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that 60 ebooks from Clinical Publishing, an independent medical publisher based in the UK, are scheduled to be available on OvidSP in 2009. Many of the titles are already for sale and accessible via Books@Ovid, OvidSP's ebook… Read More
Global economic downturn necessitates cutbacks at ACS - May 1, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, recently announced cost-saving measures in light of investment losses, declining ad revenues, and falling institutional print subscriptions to its journals and other publications. In addition to job cuts, the society has capped certain retirement health benefits… Read More
APA to deposit Wellcome-Trust funded articles into PubMed Central - May 1, 2009
The American Psychological Association (APA), publisher of titles such as Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Psychological Bulletin, has developed a Wellcome-Trust compliant author-pays model. In return for paying an OA fee ($4000), APA will now deposit on behalf of the author, the final, published version directly… Read More
Aries Systems announce general release of Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager Version 7.0 - May 1, 2009
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) developer Aries Systems, US, has announced the general release of Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager Version 7.0. Workflow solutions from Aries Systems are used by more than 3,200 scholarly publications to process over a million scholarly manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters each year. The… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces top 20 ranking of Japanese research institutions for all fields - May 1, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the annual Top 20 ranking of Japanese research institutions for all fields based on citation data of academic papers published from January 1998 to December 2008. Among world research institution rankings, only the Japanese institutions… Read More
