Mobile content to take centre-stage at Frankfurt Book Fair - September 10, 2010
The Frankfurt Book Fair, a subsidiary of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association, has announced that STM, academic publishing and specialist information companies will be exhibiting at the Fair between October 6-10. The Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 4.2 has reportedly made a name for itself as… Read More
T&F launches STAR initiative to offer online access to emerging regions - September 10, 2010
Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F), UK, has announced a new initiative called Special Terms for Authors and Researchers (STAR). The new initiative, undertaken in collaboration with T&F's learned society, professional association and co-publishing partners, is a pioneering online access scheme for individual academic and scientific authors… Read More
Encoding.com’s Mobile-Made-Easy video presets used in Nature’s Scitable videos - September 10, 2010
Video encoding service provider Encoding.com, US, has announced that Nature Education is using its Mobile Made Easy video encoding presets to make the latter's Scitable open-access science library available on mobile phones. The Scitable mobile version, launched on August 25, extends access… Read More
EBSCO Publishing releases new bibliographic databases - September 10, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced the availability of new bibliographic databases - Alternative Press Index (API) and Alternative Press Archive. Alternative Press Index claims to be one of the most extensive and up-to-date guides to alternative sources of information available today.… Read More
PubMatic partners with Smaato to provide mobile ad network optimisation for premium publishers - September 10, 2010
PubMatic, US, a provider of ad revenue optimisation technology for global online publishers, has announced a partnership with Smaato, a mobile ad optimisation platform for publishers. The partnership is projected to provide the hundreds of premium publishers that work with PubMatic with similar ad network optimisation… Read More
Project MUSE to include scholarly book content to research platform and product offerings - September 10, 2010
Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, has announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. Beginning in 2011, e-book collections will be available for purchase alongside MUSE journal collections, with an… Read More
