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 Scope eKnowledge Center to present new services at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 |
Scope eKnowledge Center, a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, will be exhibiting several new and enhanced services at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair, October 10 to 14, 2012. Scope is pleased to invite potential publishing partners to Stand J412 in Hall 4.2 to meet the company's content management consultants and learn more about its most-recent offerings.
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 PennWell acquires Elsevier Public Safety Group |
B2B publisher PennWell Corporation has acquired the Elsevier Public Safety Group including flagship magazine Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS), JEMS.com, and the EMS Today Conference & Exposition (the JEMS Conference), EMS Insider newsletter, along with FireRescue magazine, FirefighterNation.com, FireEMSblogs.com, Law Officer magazine, LawOfficer.com, and the publishing contract for APCO's Public Safety Communications magazine from Elsevier, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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EBSCO unveils serials price projections for 2013 |
Information services provider EBSCO has released serials price projections for 2013. The report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season.
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 IOP Publishing and Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information sign agreement to widen scientific research in Korea |
Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing and the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a new strategic collaboration for the provision and dissemination of scientific research. Korean researchers will now gain access to over 400,000 articles in the IOP Journal Archive covering the years 1874-2011, and the Turpion Journal Archive covering the years 1958-2011.
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UK universities have improved access to mobile services, says UCISA report |
The UCISA has released its sixth survey of technology enhanced learning for higher education, which is funded by JISC. The survey shows that UK higher education has made notable progress in helping students and staff access library services, e-mail and course announcements from their mobiles.
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National Library of China gains access to Cambridge Journals Digital Archive |
The National Library of China (NLC) has gained access to the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) Complete Collection. The complete CJDA comprises 207 journals published from 1770 to 2010 and will provide substantial support to research institutes and universities throughout China.
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Prof. Linfa Wang named Editor-in-Chief of Virology Journal |
Virology Journal, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, has announced the appointment of Professor Linfa Wang as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Prof. Wang is joined by ten new Section Editors and over eighty Associate Editors who together cover all aspects of virology, including the viruses of animals, plants and microbes. He replaces Professor Robert Garry, Tulane University, USA, who founded the journal in 2004.
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PLA obtains grant to develop online digital literacy resource collection |
The Public Library Association has been awarded a $291,178 grant through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. PLA will partner with the OITP and the COSLA to develop an online collection of digital literacy resources that will be accessible to libraries, patrons and other organisations.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Are Scientists Themselves to Blame for Exaggerated Claims in Science Journalism?); Joe Wikert (Piracy, pricing, and ebook hoarding: How is ebook pricing changing our behavior?); Mike Shatzkin (Rethinking what's happening with ebook prices); David Crotty (Are University Block Grants the Right Way to Fund Open Access Mandates?) and Martin Eve (Open Access needs terminology to distinguish between Gold OA funding models). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. |
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