De Gruyter e-dition offers 60,000 digitised titles dating back to 1749 - March 12, 2010
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced that the new De Gruyter e-dition enables customers to order any book from De Gruyter’s backlist spanning more than 260 years of publishing history. The entire backlist, dating back to 1749 and containing over 60,000 books, has been made… Read More
Dear Subscriber - March 12, 2010
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Google to digitise books at Italian national libraries - March 11, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage to digitise up to a million out-of-copyright works at the National Libraries of Florence and Rome. The libraries will select the works to be digitised from their collections,… Read More
Research Information Network publishes new guide on peer review - March 11, 2010
The UK’s Research Information Network (RIN) has released a guide, Peer review: a guide for researchers (www.rin.ac.uk/peer-review-guide), that sets out the processes involved in peer review for both grant applications and publications. It also looks at the issues that have been raised… Read More
Nature launches Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index - March 11, 2010
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), has launched Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index, a website which measures the annual output of research articles in Nature-branded journals from countries and institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. The online service is available at Read More
Berlin Verlag launches new academic and professional division – Berlin Academic - March 11, 2010
Berlin Verlag, Bloomsbury's German sister company, has announced the launch of its new academic and professional division, Berlin Academic. Berlin Academic plans to make book and journal content available online under open access criteria on a dedicated electronic publishing platform, using Creative Commons licenses. At the… Read More
