SAGE acquires Royal Society of Medicine’s journal programme - November 26, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a landmark agreement with the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) to acquire its journal programme. With immediate effect, 28 titles formerly published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press will be published by SAGE. The Royal Society of Medicine is… Read More
BioMed Central journals accepting manuscripts peer reviewed by Peerage of Science - November 26, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has announced that its journals BMC Biology, BMC Ecology, BMC Evolutionary Biology and Frontiers in Zoology are now welcoming manuscripts that have been reviewed through the community peer-review initiative Peerage of Science. The initiative aims to not only bring… Read More
COAR and euroCRIS announce strategic partnership - November 26, 2012
The World Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and euroCRIS recently announced a strategic partnership. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed at the euroCRIS members meeting in Madrid/Spain on November 6, 2012. The partnership will be based on the mutual understanding of the importance of… Read More
New Emerald publication explores impact of social media on information behaviour - November 26, 2012
Emerald Group Publishing has announced the publication of Social Information Research as Volume 5 of the Library & Information Science book series. The co-editors, Gunila Widen and Kim Holmberg, seek to explore how social networks, social interaction on the web, and social media have impacted the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 26, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (New Media and New Markets — Making Sense of the Possibilities in Publishing); Jørgen Carling (Use your author's rights to make articles freely available); Dr. Douglas Fields (50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is… Read More
Pearson and Choice to deliver longitudinal data system for ASDOE - November 21, 2012
The American Samoa Department of Education (ASDOE) has selected Pearson and Choice Solutions Inc. to design and implement a federally funded P-20 longitudinal data system (LDS). This project is said to represent the first of its kind in the Pacific. The ASDOE currently serves 21,326 students… Read More
