BMJ Group names new Commercial Director - December 4, 2007
Medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of Shane O'Neill as Commercial Director for the Group. This is a new position for the Group and will bring all of the sales, marketing, customer service and new product development under one commercial umbrella. The Commercial… Read More
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New standard for search engine indexing launched - December 3, 2007
A consortium of newspaper publishers recently launched the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), the new, non-proprietary, open standard developed to protect the intellectual property of those wishing to make content available on the World Wide Web. The launch follows a highly collaborative 12-month pilot project undertaken… Read More
European digital library project progressing - December 3, 2007
A high level group on digital libraries recently met European Commission officials in Brussels to discuss the progress on launching the European digital library. A European digital library foundation was lately created to formalise the agreement of European archives, museums, audiovisual archives and libraries to collaborate and to provide a… Read More
Cambridge University Press to provide access to healthcare journals via SIMID SMILE - December 3, 2007
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced a partnership with medical database provider Scientific Institute for Medical Information and Documentation (SIMID), Switzerland. Under the deal, metadata and full-text articles from CUP's portfolio of medical journals will be included in the SIMID Scientific Medical Information… Read More
MM Publishing to publish National Space Society’ Ad Astra - December 3, 2007
The National Space Society (NSS), US, has selected media company MM Publishing Inc., US, as the new publisher of Ad Astra, the society's official publication. The agreement takes effect with the February 2008 issue of the journal. A quarterly, Ad Astra has… Read More
