ECS and Oxford Instruments announce research-based collaboration - August 2, 2010
The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has signed a research-based collaboration agreement with Oxford Instruments. Oxford Instruments has 10 systems installed in the University's Southampton Nanofabrication Centre (SNC), operated by the ECS Nano Research Group.… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert offers free online access to all issues of Breastfeeding Medicine - August 2, 2010
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to all issues of its peer-reviewed medical publication, Breastfeeding Medicine, in recognition of the World Breastfeeding week. The offer can be availed of till August 31, 2010, at www.liebertpub.com/bfm. Celebrating… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 2, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kenneth Li (Amazon writes new chapter in its strategy); Kent Anderson (“The Reinvention of Journalism” — Just Code for “Reinvention of the Status Quo”?); Kevin Smokler (Book Publicity and Marketing: How Soon was Yesterday?); Stevan Harnad (The Mandate of Open… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - August 2, 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
AAP expresses concern on government mandates requiring free access to journal articles - July 30, 2010
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has warned that government mandates requiring free access to journal articles published by the private sector would seriously undermine scientific communication, as well as US jobs, exports and copyright protection. In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government… Read More
Elsevier and PANGAEA announce next step in connecting research articles to data - July 30, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - have announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are… Read More
