SAGE named IPG Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2012 - March 12, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has been named the Independent Publisher’s Guild (IPG) Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2012. The announcement was made as part of the IPG’s annual conference. SAGE won this category with a professional publishing programme, wide-ranging digital activity, high production standards… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 12, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Words of Digital Wisdom — Crafting Organizations That Are Smaller, More Profitable, and Provide Full-Service to Verticals); David Liberman (Will Feds Challenge Apple And Publishers’ E-Book Pricing Arrangement?); Rick Anderson (E-journal Preservation and Archiving: Whether, How, Who, Which,… Read More
3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems announce strategic partnership to integrate 3M Cloud Library with Polaris ILS - March 12, 2012
Library solutions provider 3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems have announced a strategic partnership that will make browsing and checking out eBooks simpler. The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System (ILS), allowing patrons at participating… Read More
Wiley to divest selected publishing assets - March 9, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it has retained Allen & Company LLC to explore the sale of a number of consumer print and digital publishing assets in its Professional/Trade business that no longer align with the company's long-term strategies. The assets are… Read More
Global professional publishing industry to grow 3% in 2012, says Simba report - March 9, 2012
Publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, has released a report titled Global Professional Publishing 2010-2011. According to the report, the global market for professional publishing products and services, led by the legal, science/technical and medical (STM) segments, will grow 3 percent through 2012, reaching $41.4 billion.… Read More
Elsevier collaborates with Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine to publish new journal - March 9, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will publish the new journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), Health Policy and Technology. In March FPM will launch the first issue of the cross-disciplinary journal focusing on past, present and future health policy and… Read More
