British Book Buyers are Switching to “e” from Print and Spending Less
E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume. With the lower price points of e-books versus...
China/Asia on Demand Metadata Accessible via EBSCO Discovery Service
A new partnership between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Oriprobe Information Services Inc. will allow content from China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) to be accessible within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The...
Elsevier Appoints New Managing Director for Clinical Decision Support Group
Elsevier, has appointed Jay Katzen as Managing Director of its Clinical Decision Support (CDS) group within Elsevier Health Sciences. Katzen will be responsible for all CDS...
Elsevier Honored with Six PROSE Awards
Elsevier today announced that it has garnered top honors and recognition at the 2011 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards)....
Elsevier Launches New Journal: Energy Strategy Reviews
Elsevier, today announced the launch of Energy Strategy Reviews, a new quarterly, peer-reviewed journal focusing on energy strategy, planning and decision making.
Energy Strategy Reviews stimulates the exchange...
California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing
As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads...
Established Journal Evolutionary Applications to Publish Under Open Access Model
Wiley-Blackwell, today announced that Evolutionary Applications has joined the Wiley Open Access publishing program. All newly published articles in the journal will be open access and free to...
The Future of Peer Review
Source TechCrunch - This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their...
IOS Press signs deal with ACCUCOMS for representation in Turkey
STM publisher IOS Press has signed an exclusive agreement with ACCUCOMS for sales representation in Turkey. ACCUCOMS now represents IOS Press in Turkey, Italy...
JISC Collections report examines value of library resources for academics
JISC Collections has published a report on ‘UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources’ based on research carried out by Professor Carol...
NISO Publishes White Paper on the Future Standardisation Needs for Electronic Resource Management Systems
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of Making Good on the Promise of ERM: A Standards and Best Practices Discussion Paper. This...
Elsevier and Russian Foundation of Basic Research Sign SciVerse ScienceDirect Access Agreement
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has reached an agreement with the Russian Foundation...