Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe set to launch OA Chemistry journal - July 20, 2011
Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and ChemPubSoc Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies, have announced the launch of an open access journal - ChemistryOpen. The societies are joining a new open access publishing programme announced… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon Service to support Research4Life - July 20, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that it will support the three UN-sponsored Research4Life programmes via its Summon discovery service. Research4Life is the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the… Read More
News segment fell 6 percent in 2010 publishing market, says Outsell report - July 20, 2011
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has released a new report that seeks to offer an in-depth view of the news providers and publishers marketplace. Outsell has sized this market at $93.8 billion in 2010, down 6 percent from 2009, marking the largest segment decrease… Read More
Pensoft Publishers launch new mycological open-access journal - July 20, 2011
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has launched a new journal in systematic and biology of fungi (including lichens) - MycoKeys. The Editor-in-Chief of the new journal is Dr Thorsten Lumbsch from The Field Museum, Chicago. He will be assisted by an authoritative Editorial team. All content is… Read More
Swets launches new platform to showcase the evolution of Asia Pacific libraries - July 20, 2011
Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the launch of www.librariesrevolution.com. According to the company, this website is the focal point of Libraries R-evolution, a collaborative and informative project that sees Swets partnering with members of some of the most respected… Read More
SLACK, Inc. implements Really Strategies’ RSuite CMS - July 20, 2011
STM publishing company SLACK Inc, US, has implemented RSuite CMS by Really Strategies, Inc. as its content management system (CMS) to automate distribution of its journal content to licensing channels. To smoothly produce its journals, SLACK required a reliable CMS that… Read More
