Elsevier supports World Breastfeeding Week 2010, offers free access to select articles - August 4, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that in support of World Breastfeeding Week 2010, it will open access to selected articles related to breastfeeding from the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, Midwifery and the Journal of Pediatric Health Care. The full contents of a special… Read More
JISC Collections opts for EPiServer to create e-resource procurement website for UK librarians - August 4, 2010
JISC Collections, an organisation that manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, has selected web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, to create efficient e-resource procurement website for UK librarians. JISC Collections online presence consolidates its strategy of… Read More
Accucoms announces new sales representation deal with Future Science Group - August 4, 2010
Accucoms, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced a new agreement with Future Science Group (FSG) to provide dedicated sales representation in North America. Accucoms has provided North American representation services to FSG since January 2007. The expanded… Read More
EMpact Sales and Geological Society of London sign exclusive partnership deal - August 4, 2010
EMpact Sales (EMpact), publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced an exclusive agreement with the Geological Society of London. Under the deal, EMpact will provide sales representation for the latter's electronic and print products in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - August 4, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
US state launches antitrust probe of Apple, Amazon e-book deals - August 3, 2010
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating agreements between the country's largest e-book publishers and two leading digital retailers - Amazon.com, Inc. and Apple, Inc. The probe follows a similar examination opened in June by the attorney general of Texas. According to the Attorney General, both… Read More
