New England Journal of Medicine now available in SwetsWise Online Content - October 16, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that it has signed an agreement with The Massachusetts Medical Society under which the New England Journal of Medicine will be made available in Swets' e-journal gateway - SwetsWise Online Content. With more than 400 participating publishers SwetsWise Online… Read More
Dear Subscribers - October 16, 2008
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
Online bookselling, greatest development of past 60 years, says survey - October 15, 2008
The organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair conducted a survey to find out how digitisation will influence the future of the publishing industry, and who will be the driving force behind it. More than 1,000 industry professionals from over 30 countries responded to the survey, issued… Read More
ALPSP releases third scholarly publishing practice survey on online journal publishing - October 15, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, has released the third in a series of ALPSP surveys undertaken to establish current scholarly publishing practices and designed to track changes in policy and practice since 2000.… Read More
US library group launches digital repository, HathiTrust - October 15, 2008
A group of research libraries in the US are collaborating to create a repository of their vast digital collections, including millions of books, to be archived and preserved in a single repository called the HathiTrust. Materials in the public domain will be available for reading online.… Read More
Convera to develop vertical search sites for United Publications - October 15, 2008
Vertical search services and technologies provider Convera Corporation, US, has announced an agreement with specialist publisher United Publications, US, to build three vertical search engines for their portfolio. The first two are for their Security print brands serving professional communities involved in security systems, security installations… Read More