Publishers file lawsuit against Georgia State University for copyright infringement - April 18, 2008
Publishers Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and SAGE Publications, supported by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), have filed a lawsuit in the Atlanta federal court to stop widespread copyright infringement at Georgia State University (GSU). The publishers have charged GSU officials for violating the law by systematically enabling… Read More
American Society of Nephrology signs up Accucoms for global representation deal - April 18, 2008
Accucoms, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, recently announced a deal with the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) to deliver sales, marketing and customer support services globally. The ASN seeks to advance the scientific knowledge and clinical practice of… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell to publish SPE journal – Plastics Engineering - April 18, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), have announced a publishing agreement. Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the Society's news magazine, Plastics Engineering. Published monthly,… Read More
Thomson completes acquisition of Reuters - April 18, 2008
Information solutions provider Thomson Corporation, US, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Reuters Group PLC, forming Thomson Reuters. The new entity is projected to be a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals in the scientific, healthcare, financial, legal, tax and… Read More
ECS developers win $5000 repository challenge - April 18, 2008
Developers from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, and Oxford University have won a $5000 challenge competition which took place at the recently held OR08 Open Repositories international conference. Dave Tarrant, Tim Brody (Southampton) and Ben O'Steen (Oxford), beat… Read More
Collexis’ Darrell W. Gunter elected to SIIA Content Board - April 18, 2008
Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced that the company's executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Darrell W. Gunter, has been elected to the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Content Division Board. Gunter is one of twelve executives representing… Read More
