Gale offers free resources on its Environmental Resource website - April 23, 2009
E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, is offering free resources on its completely updated Environmental Resource website (http://www.galeschools.com/environment/) in celebration of Earth Day. Users can browse the activities page (http://www.galeschools.com/environment/activities.htm) to learn more… Read More
Reed Elsevier announces new chairman - April 23, 2009
Publisher Reed Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Anthony Habgood as chairman, effective June 1, 200. This is subject to his appointment as a member of the supervisory board of Reed Elsevier NV at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to be held in May. He will… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 23, 2009
The Fifth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Liz Wager (If comment is cheap why is peer review so expensive?); Ryan Paul (Wikipedians to vote on Creative Commons license adoption); Nicole Harris (Where is the I in Open Content?); Christian Zimmermann (Tips for authors to improve their RePEc… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell relaunches Current Protocols.com - April 22, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the relaunch of Current Protocols.com, a website for scientists engaged in experimental research in the life sciences. The site is projected as an essential resource, bringing… Read More
Springer and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology announce publishing partnership - April 22, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced an agreement with the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) to publish The Encyclopedia of Molecular Life Sciences. The 11-volume work will be published in print and electronically in 2012. Society members will have free access to the… Read More
OECD publishes white paper on data discoverability standards - April 22, 2009
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a white paper titled 'We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables'. The paper examines the problems with current data discoverability and citations and the remedy in creating industry standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and… Read More
