JISC extends e-journals initiative to cover content from small publishers - February 13, 2008
JISC Collections has announced plans to extend the National e-Journals Initiative 2 (NESLi2) initiative to include online journal content from small and medium sized publishers. The new initiative, NESLi2 SMP (NESLi2 for Small and Medium sized Publishers), facilitates access for staff and students in universities, colleges… Read More
Scopus to add 600 key titles proposed by scientific community - February 13, 2008
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will add 600 titles to its already extensive database of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals. To ensure it covers all information deemed relevant to scientific researchers, Scopus has established a content strategy that… Read More
Royal Society periodicals to go live on HighWire’s ePublishing platform - February 13, 2008
The Royal Society, the UK's autonomous scientific academy, and Stanford University's HighWire Press recently announced a new partnership to offer the Society's publications online. Under the deal, all content of the Society's eight periodicals, some dating as back as 1665, will be… Read More
Wiley, Elsevier warn authors against e-mail scam - February 13, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have alerted authors against an e-mail spam through their respective websites. An e-mail message, circulated last week, sought manuscript submissions for peer-reviewed journals and claimed to come from Blackwell Publishing. It… Read More
Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care completes first year of publication - February 13, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its journal, Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, has completed its first year of publication. Editors-in-Chief John Licciardone and Roberto Cardarelli, have published an editorial detailing the progress of the journal to date, and looking forwards the future.… Read More
McGraw-Hill’s AccessPharmacy wins ‘Award of Excellence’ from Association of American Publishers - February 13, 2008
AccessPharmacy, an online content solution from McGraw-Hill, has been awarded the 'Award of Excellence' for Best Electronic Publication or Product from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The award was announced at the annual conference of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of… Read More
