‘Health and Human Rights’ adopts open access model - September 29, 2008
The journal Health and Human Rights (HHR) this month has published its first open-access edition. Volume 10, Issue 1 will continue to appear in print, and is still published by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center) at the Harvard School of… Read More
SAGE and Alexander Street Press to add new transcripts from Verilogue to mental health research and training database - September 29, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE and publisher Alexander Street Press, US, have announced that research and training mental health resource - Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works - is being enhanced by the addition of hundreds of new transcripts from Verilogue… Read More
UC Press selects Ingram Digital’s CoreSource platform to archive and distribute digital assets - September 29, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced that academic publisher University of California Press (UC Press) has selected its CoreSource platform to archive, manage and distribute its digital assets. Ingram Digital, an Ingram content company, delivers solutions for digital content management, hosting and distribution.… Read More
AAUP and Tizra announce e-book partnership - September 29, 2008
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a new cooperative venture with e-publishing service provider Tizra, Inc., US. Through this agreement, AAUP members will be eligible for discounted access to the Tizra Publisher platform. The Tizra Publisher platform is a… Read More
Swets represents eleven international publishers at the Beijing International Book Fair - September 29, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, represented eleven international publishers at this year's Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), held in Tianjin from September 1-4, 2008. The publishers are: CSIRO Publishing, EDP Sciences, Euromonitor International, IWA Publishing, OECD, The British Psychological Society, Pavilion, E.Schweizerbart Science, Professional Engineering Publishing,… Read More
Phillip Cates to lead organisational advancement for Sigma Xi - September 29, 2008
Scientific research society Sigma Xi, US, has announced the appointment of Phillip K. Cates as director of organisational advancement. This new department combines the society's development and membership departments. Cates comes to Sigma Xi from Compassionate Capital, a capacity building and resource development consulting firm he… Read More