BioMed Central journals indexed in Cinahl - February 17, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that 8 of its journals have recently been accepted for indexing by Cinahl. Cinahl indexes titles relevant to nursing and allied healthcare. The journals are: BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine; BMC Health Services Research; Chiropractic & Osteopathy; Health… Read More
Dear Subscribers - February 17, 2009
STM Publishers can now add their Company to the Knowledgespeak Directory list. You can also update our events calendar, if you are organising an event which may be of interest to the STM publishing community. Also, you can send your company Read More
Leading associations call for universities need to promote broader dissemination of research and scholarship - February 16, 2009
Four leading associations serving research universities - the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant… Read More
Medical journals biased toward pharma-sponsored influenza vaccine studies: BMJ report - February 16, 2009
A review of influenza vaccine studies has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), authored by Dr. Tom Jefferson of Cochrane Field, Italy, and colleagues. The review found that published influenza vaccine studies sponsored by industry are treated more favourably by medical journals even when… Read More
ALPSP responds to UK Intellectual Property Office paper on IP issues in digital era - February 16, 2009
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, has responded to the UK Intellectual Property Office issues paper, '© the Future'. The issues paper posed a number of questions regarding the nature of copyright in the… Read More
American Chemical Society publications bags PROSE awards - February 16, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, has announced that it has won two prestigious PROSE awards for excellence in scholarly publishing. ACS Nano, edited by Dr. Paul S. Weiss, received the Association of American Publishers' Award for Best New Journal in the… Read More