Publishing Technology to rebuild Sunmedia’s publishing platform with pub2web tech - October 12, 2009
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, has announced a partnership with content solutions provider Sunmedia, Japan. Under the deal, Publishing Technology will deploy its pub2web technology to rebuild Sunmedia’s online publishing platform as a robust new research service. Sunmedia's current platform supplies Japanese researchers… Read More
Cold Spring Publishing set to launch new Oncology journal - October 12, 2009
Medical publishing company Cold Spring Publishing, LLC, US, has announced the launch of a clinical journal - The Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology. The journal is targeted at nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, advanced practice nurses, and physician's assistants who practice in the field… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 12, 2009
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Jon Gibs (Social Media: The Next Great Gateway for Content Discovery?); Kent Anderson (Is It Print That’s Dying? Or Mass Media?); Jenny Delasalle (Theses and early draft deposit in repositories: is that publication?); and Michael Clarke (Been Avoiding Social Media?… Read More
‘Big deals’ overtaking single subscriptions, says ALPSP survey of librarians - October 9, 2009
The Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP) has announced that, according to its recent survey of librarians, the average number of journals being made available by libraries more than doubled between 2000 and 2009. However, librarians are predicting that they will provide access to… Read More
Semantic Wiki website launched for AcaWiki users - October 9, 2009
Representatives of nonprofit project AcaWiki have announced the opening of a new semantic-Wiki based website (http://acawiki.org) that allows scholars, students and bloggers to easily post summaries and discuss academic papers online. All content posted to the site is licensed under a Creative… Read More
JISC Collections to acquire Content Complete Ltd - October 9, 2009
JISC Collections, an organisation that manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, has reached an agreement to acquire Oxfordshire-based Content Complete Ltd, effective January 1, 2010. Library clients, publishers and content providers are expected to benefit from this… Read More
