Arie Jongejan steps down as Swets’ CEO - January 9, 2009
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that after 4 years as CEO of Swets, Arie Jongejan has decided to step down from his position as of December 31, 2008. The process to appoint a successor to Arie is underway. The Executive Board of Swets, under… Read More
Dear Subscribers - January 9, 2009
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Elsevier adds Doyma Spanish Medical Collection titles on ScienceDirect - January 8, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that fifty titles from the Elsevier Doyma Spanish Medical Collection are available on ScienceDirect, its online scientific research platform. Doyma, a Spanish language medical publisher acquired by Elsevier in 2005, publishes about 5,000 high quality papers every year. The inclusion… Read More
RSC, ChemZoo developing tools to help chemists label compounds with standard tags - January 8, 2009
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and ChemZoo, a US-based software firm, are developing tools to help chemists label their own compounds with a standard computer-readable tag. The collaborative project, announced in December 2008, aims to help researchers share information on chemical… Read More
CRKN, Ingram Digital deal to provide Canadian universities access to e-book content - January 8, 2009
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced that it has been selected by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) to provide 67 Canadian universities, encompassing nearly 900,000 researchers, scholars and students, with access to premium e-book content from leading academic… Read More
International Standard Text Code Agency appoints new registration agency - January 8, 2009
The International ISTC Agency, the official Registration Authority for the International Standard Text Code (ISTC), has appointed Bowker and Nielsen Book as ISTC registration agencies. These agencies will now be authorised to assign ISTCs on behalf of publishers,… Read More
