ORCID, Inc selects Semantico to build global scholarly author registry - December 6, 2011
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd, UK, has been selected by ORCID, Inc. to help build the first phase of their worldwide registry for scholarly authors. ORCID is a not-for-profit global consortium of academic institutions, publishers, scholarly societies, corporate companies, governmental bodies and not-for-profit agencies. … Read More
WK Health acquires India-based OA STM publisher, Medknow - December 6, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has acquired open access publisher Medknow Pvt Ltd. The acquisition expands Wolters Kluwer Health's Medical Research business' presence in key developing markets and supports its strategy to increase locally written content and incorporate more open access platforms… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces partnership with Antibodypedia - December 6, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced a partnership with Antibodypedia. An online searchable database, Antibodypedia links publicly available antibodies with data demonstrating their efficacy and published studies in which they have been used. A new website for Antibodypedia is live at Read More
ASCO adds mobile licensing capability for two of its journals iPad and iPhone app - December 6, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced that the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently integrated CCC's latest software development kit (SDK) to its Journal of Clinical Oncology and Journal of Oncology Practice iPad and iPhone app, to conduct… Read More
BioMed Central set to publish official journal of the Belgian Association of Public Health - December 5, 2011
Open Access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will publish the Archives of Public Health, formerly known as Belgian Archives of Social Medicine, Hygiene, Occupational Health and Forensic Medicine. The journal is the official journal of the Belgian Association of Public Health. Editors-in-Chief Professor… Read More
ebrary in partnership with DA Information Services - December 2, 2011
E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, has announced a partnership with DA Information Services, Australia's largest locally-based academic library service supplier. The deal is stated to make authoritative content from leading publishers more readily and easily available to libraries in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji… Read More
Pubget’s content analytics tool now available through Wolper’s WOLPERweb - December 2, 2011
Pubget, a US-based provider of cloud-based content access tools for scientists, researchers and libraries, and Wolper Subscription Services Inc. have announced the availability of Pubget's content analytics tool, PaperStats, through Wolper's proprietary, custom, cloud-based subscription management system, WOLPERweb. PaperStats enhances Wolper's subscription management toolkit by… Read More
IOP Publishing and China National Science and Technology Library sign three year national agreement - December 2, 2011
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, and the China National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) have signed a three year national agreement. The new arrangement will make 14 titles from seven major scientific societies available to Chinese researchers in 2012-2014. The new… Read More
Springer set to publish official publication of the American Vacuum Society - December 2, 2011
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish Biointerphases: Journal for Quantitative Biological Interface Data, starting January 2012. An official publication of the American Vacuum Society (AVS), Biointerphases will be published as an open access journal under the brand SpringerOpen. It was previously published by… Read More
The British Library in deal with Elsevier and Taylor & Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers - December 1, 2011
The British Library, the national library of the UK, has signed an agreement with publishers Elsevier and Taylor and Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers. The agreement governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library's Document Supply Service to… Read More
