Dear Subscribers - September 12, 2008
STM Publishers can now add their Company to the Knowledgespeak Directory list. You can also update our events calendar, if you are organising an event which may be of interest to the STM publishing community. Also, you can send your company
NFAIS conferences for publishers and librarians - September 11, 2008
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Committee on Usage Statistics is organising a one-day conference - Usage Statistics: New Developments and Practical Applications - to be held October 21, 2008, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New… Read More
ProQuest, Google form partnership to digitise newspaper content - September 11, 2008
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has announced a partnership with Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, to bring millions of pages of newspaper content to the open web. The programme allows web access to archives of both large and small newspapers, which might never… Read More
University of Texas at Austin adopts CCC’s Annual Copyright License - September 11, 2008
The University of Texas at Austin has signed an agreement with non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, to become the largest institution to adopt CCC's Annual Copyright License for academic institutions. This agreement seeks to provide librarians, faculty, copy shop staff and… Read More
Royal Society Publishing selects PublishingAtWork as its new production tracking system - September 11, 2008
Royal Society Publishing (RSP), the publishing division of the Royal Society, UK, and Clariti Systems Ltd, a UK based independent software and web solution provider, have announced a new partnership to track the production of the publications of Britain's national science academy… Read More
Reed may offer vendor financing for sale of trade publications unit - September 11, 2008
Publisher Reed Elsevier, Netherlands, is offering $330 million from its own accounts in vendor financing for the sale of its trade publications unit, Reed Business Information (RBI), according to a Reuters report. Also, the company has reportedly put together a $1.26 billion staple financing package from… Read More
