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
MetaPress and Woodhead Publishing partner to build new e-book platform - October 13, 2008
MetaPress, a US-based web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced a new partnership agreement with scientific and technical publisher Woodhead Publishing Limited, UK. Under the deal, MetaPress will develop and host a multitiered e-book platform for Woodhead Publishing to be… Read More
Springer to acquire open access publisher BioMed Central Group - October 9, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced an agreement to acquire open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central Group, UK, for an undisclosed amount. BioMed Central (BMC) was launched in May 2000 as an independent publishing house committed to providing… Read More
Oxford Journals signs national licensing agreement with German consortium - October 9, 2008
Oxford Journals has announced a new national agreement with the University Library of Frankfurt, one of the German National Libraries of Humanities and Arts. Under the agreement, higher education, government and publicly funded research institutions, state and regional libraries, and universities in Germany will obtain… Read More
IEEE expands marketing pact with EMpact Sales to include three additional regions - October 9, 2008
Technical professional society IEEE has announced that it has extended the territorial scope of its existing sales and marketing partnership with EMpact Sales, the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services. The partnership has been extended to include the Nordic region, Russia and Cuba. According… Read More
MetaPress adds three publishers for e-content hosting service - October 9, 2008
MetaPress a US-based provider of hosting services for STM content, has announced that three additional publishers have launched their electronic content distribution services via the MetaPress 2.0 platform. These publishers include the Chicago Linguistic Society, Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry and Supervision Magazine. MetaPress is… Read More
World Scientific Publishing Company set to publish the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines - October 8, 2008
Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, has announced a new collaborative publishing venture with the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (SPP). Under the deal, WSPC will take over all publishing and marketing aspects of the latter's journal, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (JPP), effective… Read More
Swets acquires Dutch Agent & Book Seller – Boekhandel E. Frencken B.V. - October 7, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Boekhandel E. Frencken B.V., the Dutch based subscription agent and book and journal seller. Under the acquisition deal, the business name Boekhandel E. Frencken B.V. will change to Frencken Information Services B.V.,… Read More
ABC-CLIO gets perpetual licence to publish Greenwood Publishing Group titles - October 6, 2008
Educational publishers ABC-CLIO, UK, and Houghton Mifflin Company, US, have announced an agreement wherein ABC-CLIO obtains a perpetual licence to use the imprints and publish the titles of Houghton's Greenwood Publishing Group. The agreement covers Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International… Read More
