Dear Subscribers - December 11, 2007
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Digital toolkit project to capture research information gets NSF grant - December 10, 2007
Beth Plale, associate professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science, has reportedly received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her project. She is working on developing a digital toolkit to help researchers more easily capture information about their scientific work. The new tools are… Read More
IT firms drop out of the race for Springer arm - December 10, 2007
Major IT firms Wipro and Infosys Technologies have reportedly dropped out of the race to acquire Scientific Publishing Services (SPS), the Indian arm of the Europe-based publishing group Springer. The two companies have cited high valuation expectations from SPS owners. A leading premedia and typesetting services provider for STM publishers,… Read More
PLEFA to be the official publication of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids - December 10, 2007
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that fatty-acid research journal - Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes & Essential Fatty Acids (PLEFA) - is set to become the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL), in 2008. The year also marks the… Read More
BioMed Central to launch new OA journal for conference publications - December 10, 2007
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that it will be launching BMC Proceedings, a companion journal to the BMC-series, later this month. Dr. Melissa Norton will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. A peer-reviewed online journal, BMC Proceedings will publish proceedings from academic conferences,… Read More
Thieme releases Teaching Atlas book on vascular, nonvascular interventional radiology - December 10, 2007
Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the release of the Teaching Atlas of Vascular and Nonvascular Interventional Radiology. The new addition to the Teaching Atlas series is seen as an invaluable resource for residents and fellows as well as experienced… Read More
