SAGE publishes International Area Studies Review - April 23, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it now publishes the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, International Area Studies Review (IASR). IASR is the publication of the Center for International Area Studies (CIAS) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, published in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute… Read More
BioMed Central launches new OA journal – Agriculture & Food Security - April 20, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new open access journal Agriculture & Food Security. The journal recently launched as a venue for research addressing the challenge of global food security, with a particular focus on sustainable agriculture and food systems… Read More
Amazon Web Services unveils AWS Marketplace, an online store for customers to find and buy pre-configured software for the AWS Cloud - April 20, 2012
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for customers to find, compare and immediately start using the software and technical services they need to build products and run their businesses. Visitors to AWS Marketplace… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe offers Chinese patent information on STN - April 18, 2012
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, is offering the Chinese full-text patent file CNFULL on online science and patent information service STN. This is projected to enable researchers and patent specialists to broaden their complex patent searches to Chinese patent full-texts in order to determine patentability, state of the… Read More
MetaPress announces three new levels of service for publishers - April 18, 2012
MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced three targeted product offerings to meet the needs of publishers, regardless of size. The three levels of service - Tailor-Made, Standard, and Essential - target the particular needs of large and small publishers. … Read More
Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available at academic institutions worldwide - April 18, 2012
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the availability of the Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a multi-year global digitisation and publishing programme. Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs and more –… Read More
Co-Action Publishing and International Society for Extracellular Vesicles partner to launch the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles - April 17, 2012
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced a partnership with the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles to launch the peer-reviewed journal - Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (JEV). The society’s decision to launch a new journal is based on… Read More
Publishing Technology and CNPIEC launch digital publishing platform for Chinese libraries - April 17, 2012
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, and the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC) are set to launch the Digital Gateway, a digital publishing platform for Chinese libraries, in a special ceremony at the London Book Fair. The launch event will take… Read More
OverDrive to preview library eBook data at London Book Fair - April 16, 2012
OverDrive, a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and other digital content, will announce the first of a series of 'Big Data' reports analysing billions of eBook impressions and other data collected from across its network of 18,000 public and school libraries at the ongoing London Book… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal – Algal Research - April 13, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal - Algal Research. The first issue of the journal will be published in May 2012 and further introduced at the 2nd Algal Biomas, Biofuels and Bioproducts conference, which will take place in San Diego,… Read More
