Dr. Hamish Meldrum and Dr. Kiran Patel join BMJ Group Board - November 19, 2012
Medical information provider The BMJ Group, UK, has announced that the immediate past chairman of BMA Council, Dr. Hamish Meldrum, and Dr. Kiran Patel, a consultant cardiologist, are joining the BMJ Group Board as non-executive directors from November, 2012. Dr Meldrum has been a registered… Read More
Golden Gate Capital to acquire Ex Libris Group from Leeds Equity Partners - November 19, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Golden Gate Capital, a prominent San Francisco-based private equity firm with $12 billion in capital under management, has entered into an agreement to acquire Ex Libris from its current owner, Leeds Equity Partners. Terms of… Read More
Registration deadline for scholarly communication workshop on strategic skills extended - November 19, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication have announced that the early-bird registration deadline has been extended for the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC) workshop, 'Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Scholarly Communication Program: Strategic Skills for Success,' to be… Read More
AAUP names Peter M. Berkery, Jr. as incoming Executive Director - November 19, 2012
The Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has named Peter M. Berkery, Jr., the next Executive Director of the Association, starting March 1, 2013. Berkery comes to AAUP from Oxford University Press, where he has served for the last 4… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 19, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Is the Relationship Between Journal Impact Factors and Article Citations Growing Weaker?); Paul Jump (Is RCUK's open-access cash a 'reckless' road to ruin?); Mark Reed (8 steps to making your research punch above its weight); Joe Wikert (Free… Read More
Springer and Science Press to jointly publish Journal of Arid Land - November 16, 2012
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the Journal of Arid Land as of January 2013. The journal is the official publication of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The quarterly peer-reviewed journal joins Springer's… Read More
