Wiley-Blackwell announces publishing partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - November 19, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced a publishing partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the Journal… Read More
ACM partners with FEDLINK to facilitate access to ACM Digital Library - November 19, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it has agreed to participate in the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) of more than 1,000 US Government member libraries to facilitate their access to the ACM Digital Library (DL) (http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm). FEDLINK… Read More
BioMed Central to add content to Quertle’s biomedical search tool - November 19, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced a partnership with Quertle LLC to add over 60,000 published articles into the latest version of Quertle’s online biomedical search tool. Quertle is projected as a query site for more effective searching of scientific… Read More
EUP journals to be made available to UK universities via NESLi2 initiative - November 18, 2009
Scholarly publisher Edinburgh University Press, UK, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections to provide EUP journals to the UK academic community via the NESLi2 SMP initiative in 2010. NESLi2 SMP features e-content from 22 publishers around the world which are licensed by more than 190… Read More
Scribd and ProQuest partner to provide access to academic works - November 18, 2009
Social publishing company Scribd, US, has announced an agreement with academic dissertations and theses publisher ProQuest to make selected graduate dissertations and theses available for purchase on Scribd (www.scribd.com/ProQuestUMI). The agreement will provide Scribd readers access to tens of thousands of original… Read More
Elsevier set to publish ACAAI journal, Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - November 17, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will assume publication of the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, beginning with Volume 104 (2010). The journal is the official journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI). The Annals of Allergy, Asthma… Read More
Swets announces compliance with Release 3 of COUNTER - November 16, 2009
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that SwetsWise Online Content has been successfully audited for compliancy with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. This audit means that COUNTER 3 compliant data can be downloaded directly within SwetsWise Online Content and is also available… Read More
American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry sign agreement to address global sustainability issues - November 13, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) have announced an agreement to work co-operatively to contribute to global efforts aimed at developing sustainable energy, providing abundant food and clean water, and seeking to address other global challenges that threaten sustainability of… Read More
Maney Publishing acquires audiology titles from Wiley-Blackwell - November 13, 2009
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced the acquisition of two quarterly journals from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The journals, Cochlear Implants International and Deafness & Education International, together establish a decisive publishing commitment to the clinical treatment and education of the deaf. Deafness &… Read More
IOS Press acquires four Taylor & Francis journals - November 13, 2009
STM publisher IOS Press BV, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis for the transfer of four journals to its publishing programme. The journals are: Main Group Chemistry, International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications, Bridge Structures – Assessment Design and Construction… Read More