Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 23, 2009
The Fifth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Liz Wager (If comment is cheap why is peer review so expensive?); Ryan Paul (Wikipedians to vote on Creative Commons license adoption); Nicole Harris (Where is the I in Open Content?); Christian Zimmermann (Tips for authors to improve their RePEc… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell relaunches Current Protocols.com - April 22, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the relaunch of Current Protocols.com, a website for scientists engaged in experimental research in the life sciences. The site is projected as an essential resource, bringing… Read More
Springer and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology announce publishing partnership - April 22, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced an agreement with the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) to publish The Encyclopedia of Molecular Life Sciences. The 11-volume work will be published in print and electronically in 2012. Society members will have free access to the… Read More
OECD publishes white paper on data discoverability standards - April 22, 2009
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a white paper titled 'We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables'. The paper examines the problems with current data discoverability and citations and the remedy in creating industry standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and… Read More
Ingram Digital and Kogan Page announce new agreement - April 22, 2009
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced a new agreement with Kogan Page, Europe's leading independent business book publisher. Kogan Page currently works with Ingram Publisher Services, a full-service distributor for publishers of all sizes, to facilitate their print distribution strategy in the US.… Read More
Aries Systems and Asia Pacific Medinfo collaborate to promote Editorial Manager in China - April 22, 2009
Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced a collaboration and distribution agreement with Chinese company Asia Pacific Medinfo. The move is in response to the growing interest in the company's Editorial Manager peer-review system from Chinese publishers and authors. Under the deal, Asia… Read More
