Dear Subscriber - October 13, 2009
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RCD files corporate espionage lawsuit against McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge - October 12, 2009
Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, has filed a suit in federal court against McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The suit charges Dodge with unlawfully accessing confidential and trade… Read More
SPARC brings out new guide examining income models supporting OA journals - October 12, 2009
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new guide which examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open-access publishers. The new guide, ‘Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice,’ examines the use of supply-side revenue streams (such… Read More
American Institute of Physics launches new mobile e-Reader application, iResearch - October 12, 2009
XML content server provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, has announced that the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has used MarkLogic Server to launch its new mobile e-Reader application, iResearch. iResearch was developed to provide the AIP community of researchers, comprising physicists, engineers,… Read More
RIN-OCLC study to identify researchers’ needs - October 12, 2009
The Research Information Network (RIN) and OCLC Research are undertaking a comparative study to investigate information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US. This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will examine information-related support services throughout… Read More
John Wiley & Sons partners with Scrivener Publishing - October 12, 2009
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership with Scrivener Publishing, a provider of book and chapter length material for industry practitioners and academic researchers in the technical applied sciences. Under the deal, Wiley and Scrivener will co-develop a line of books… Read More
