Wiley-Blackwell, NAHQ announce new publishing partnership - October 24, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it has been selected by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) to publish the association's peer-reviewed journal, Journal for Healthcare Quality. The publisher will assume publishing… Read More
Semantico, OECD announce new partnership - October 24, 2008
Online publishing solutions provider Semantico Limited, UK, has announced a new partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to implement a new bibliographic metadata engine to support OECD's online publishing solutions. Semantico will work with OECD to develop an… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces enhanced partnership with COPE - October 22, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced an enhanced partnership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). More than 1,300 journals, the full collection of scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals published by Wiley-Blackwell Read More
Oxford Journals, WALDO announce partnership - October 22, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced an agreement with the Westchester Academic Library Director's Organization (WALDO) to enable many more US researchers to access the Oxford Journals Collection. The agreement has immediate effect and is valid until the end of… Read More
SAGE, CAPES renew agreement to offer members with access to SAGE’s Online Journals - October 20, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has renewed its agreement with the Brazilian consortium, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), to offer member institutions online access to a specially selected package of SAGE journals. Under the new agreement,… Read More
Jones and Bartlett and Mexican Red Cross announce long-term strategic partnership - October 20, 2008
Educational publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (J&B), US, has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with the Mexican Red Cross (MRC). Under the deal, J&B and MRC will educate Spanish-speaking prehospital providers worldwide. Together, both companies will meet the growing demand for Spanish-language training materials… Read More
Turkish Government’s Scientific and Technological Research council signs three year deal for ISI Web of Knowledge - October 17, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Turkish Government's Scientific and Technological Research Organization's (TUBITAK) R&D Facility Institute, The Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBIM), has signed a three year contract for the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. The science, social… Read More
PEER initiative to examine effects of systematic archiving - October 16, 2008
Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), an initiative supported by the European Union (EU), has announced that it will investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility and… Read More
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association launched - October 16, 2008
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, was officially launched in conjunction with an OA Day celebration hosted by the Wellcome Trust in London. OASPA seeks to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.… Read More
New England Journal of Medicine now available in SwetsWise Online Content - October 16, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that it has signed an agreement with The Massachusetts Medical Society under which the New England Journal of Medicine will be made available in Swets' e-journal gateway - SwetsWise Online Content. With more than 400 participating publishers SwetsWise Online… Read More