CIG Media Group offers financial aid for cancer support groups - May 3, 2010
Oncology journals publisher CIG Media Group, US, has announced that it has made a financial endowment to aid local clinical cancer research, and foundations such as the ThriveWell Cancer Foundation that support them. The endowment is aimed to help groups such as Jake Remembered and START,… Read More
Maney Publishing expands archive offerings - May 3, 2010
Publisher Maney Publishing, UK has announced that over one-third of its journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences and humanities now have full archives available online following a retrodigitisation programme. The digital archives feature up to 80 years of journal content. Over 1,500 issues of… Read More
Molly Raphael elected ALA president for 2011-12 - May 3, 2010
Molly Raphael, former director of libraries at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, has been elected president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA). James Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University, was elected treasurer, defeating Alan Kornblau, director of the Delray… Read More
Steven Hall named new Managing Director for IOP Publishing - May 3, 2010
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP Publishing), US, has announced the appointment of Steven Hall as the company’s new Managing Director. He replaces Jerry Cowhig, who is retiring. Having started out at Macmillan Press, Hall went on to Chadwyck-Healey as Sales and Marketing Director and then Managing… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 3, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ann Michael (STM Association Spring Conference: Are Publishers Listening?); Charlie Rapple ("UKSG 2010, Librarians and Open Access"); Colin Smith (How Are institutional research repositories relatively less important for the sciences?); and Isaac Fitzgerald (eBook Wars Continue). Blogspeak includes blog posts… Read More
Apple iPAd offers opportunities but with strings attached, publishers told - April 30, 2010
Magazine industry experts have reportedly been warned that while Apple's tablet computer, iPad, may offer several publishing opportunities, these are likely to come with strings attached. According to Juan Senor of the Innovation International Media Consulting Group, the arrival of the iPad and other tablets in… Read More
