Hellman joins private equity consortium to bid for publisher Informa - June 25, 2008
Providence Equity Partners Ltd. and the Carlyle Group, private equity firms that are considering a joint bid for media company Informa Plc, UK, have announced that Hellman & Friedman LLC is also participating in the consortium. The takeover of Informa is projected as one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in… Read More
Elsevier to implement plagiarism detection service from CrossRef - June 25, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will implement CrossCheck, the plagiarism detection service offered by CrossRef in collaboration with iParadigms. Elsevier has invested in CrossCheck to develop, pilot and implement, a single database of published articles enabling publishers to easily verify the originality of… Read More
Inspec Database attains new landmark - June 25, 2008
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that its bibliographic database, Inspec, has reached a landmark of over 10 million records. It was a journal article from IOP Publishing's Nanotechnology that pushed the database over the 10 million mark. Inspec… Read More
American Chemical Society launches test site for new features in JACS web edition - June 25, 2008
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has launched a new experimental website called JACS Beta. The offering is a test site for innovative features that the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) and its customers are interested in incorporating into the publication's web edition.… Read More
Orbis Cascade Alliance to host ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication - June 25, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have announced a regional Institute for Scholarly Communication from December 1-3, 2008, in Portland, Oregon. Hosted by the Orbis Cascade Alliance, this jointly sponsored immersive learning experience prepares… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal – Molecular Brain - June 25, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of Molecular Brain, a new open access, independent journal. The journal will cover all aspects of studies on the nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system level. Molecular Brain seeks to provide a forum for… Read More
