New survey to identify shifting challenges and priorities for scholarly societies - September 3, 2008
A recently launched international survey 'Meeting the challenges: societies and scholarly communication' aims to gain insight and understanding of the professional challenges facing scholarly societies across the world in the 21st century. Aimed at top-level society executives, the survey seeks to address critical issues for societies with regard to membership… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Salesforce.com come together to develop global course adoption database - September 3, 2008
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), LLC, US, and Salesforce.com have joined forces to develop and implement a global course adoption database called Course Adoption System (CAS). Slated for launch in the beginning of 2009, CAS will enable T&F to better penetrate… Read More
ALPSP and PSP Consulting set to launch new short course for journal editors - September 3, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), US, and PSP Consulting are launching a new short course for journal editors in January 2009. This event is for editors from journals in all disciplines, and is based on a course for… Read More
Dear Subscribers - September 3, 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 Read More
NLM accepts Journal of Visualized Experiments for indexing in MEDLINE and PubMed - September 2, 2008
National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has accepted the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) for indexing in the official repositories of the scientific literature MEDLINE and PubMed. Less than 2 years old, JoVE is a scientific journal that publishes online… Read More
World Scientific, Imperial College Press to launch new journals in 2009 - September 2, 2008
Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, and Imperial College Press (ICP) have announced the launch of several new journals in 2009. It was also announced that some journals will publish more issues in 2009 due to an increase of accepted papers. Journals scheduled for… Read More