Veteran media executive Gordon Crovitz joins ProQuest Board - July 23, 2008
ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has announced that veteran media executive L. Gordon Crovitz has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Crovitz has more than 25 years of US and global business operations experience at Dow Jones, including his role as publisher of The Wall… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - July 23, 2008
Knowledgespeak is planning to atomise its content. A preliminary but significant initiative has already been taken in this direction. For an internationally esteemed association, we have repackaged and categorised our news under various topics to suit the information needs of its members. We are exploring other possibilities of bringing a… Read More
Special panel discussion to bridge the digital divide held at ESOF 2008 - July 22, 2008
HINARI Access to Research Initiative has announced that a special panel discussion, 'Bridging the Digital Divide by 2015: partnering to provide the developing world with critical research' was held on July 19th at the 3rd EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF 2008) in Barcelona, Spain. The ESOF 2008… Read More
APA reconsiders charge to meet NIH norms following criticism from OA community - July 22, 2008
The American Psychological Association (APA) is reportedly reconsidering its plans to charge authors to fulfil the open access (OA) mandate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). APA had initially proposed to charge authors $2,500 per manuscript to deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript in PubMed Central… Read More
Bestofmedia Group raises $35 million funding from Index Ventures - July 22, 2008
Bestofmedia Group, a France-based online media publishing company focused on technology, has announced a funding of $35 million (€ 22.5 million) from venture capital firm Index Ventures. It will use the funds to accelerate growth in the US market, build on its position as a leading… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal – BioData Mining - July 22, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new open access journal - BioData Mining. Dr Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz of the Pablo De Olavide University and Dr Jason H. Moore of the Dartmouth Medical School will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. They… Read More
