Wiley-Blackwell Signs Open Access Agreements with Telethon Italy
Wiley-Blackwell, has signed open access funding agreements with three European research organizations: the Max Planck Society in Germany, the FWF Austrian Science Fund, and...
EBSCO predicts up to 6 percent increase in publisher prices for libraries
Publishing services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it expects the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2012 (before currency...
RSC’s new flagship journal wins ALPSP Award
The Royal Society of Chemistry's new flagship journal Chemical Science last night won 'Best New Journal' at a prestigious publishing awards ceremony.
The Association of Learned and...
Google seen close to settling lawsuit with publishers
The Google Books case is headed to litigation. At a status conference Thursday, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed pre-trial schedule that, if followed,...
Taylor & Francis Online goes mobile!
Taylor & Francis has created Taylor & Francis Online Mobile which provides mobile access to the 1,600 Journals and Reference Works available via Taylor &...
ChemSpider Mobile app now available from Apple App Store
ChemSpider Mobile is a free iOS app (iPhone, iPod, iPad) for searching the ChemSpider online chemical database. It provides the ability to search by drawing a...
150 new Taylor & Francis journals added to aRDi
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is pleased to announce a significant expansion of the Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi) program...
Pensoft Publishers launch new open-access journal in invasion biology
Open minded and open access: NeoBiota, a new publishing platform for invasion biologists
Plants helping human parasites, roads as weed highways, and chemical warfare between...
Open access journals supported by a €1 million Dutch open access fund
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the main Dutch science funding body, has launched a €1 million open access fund to help Dutch scientists establish new...
Apple and major publishers face lawsuit over ebook ‘price fixing’
Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins among firms accused of colluding to scupper Amazon's consumer-friendly $9.99 rate
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in the US alleging...
BookStats survey details strong 3-year growth in revenue
BookStats, the deepest, most comprehensive statistical survey ever conducted of the modern U.S. publishing industry — capturing its size, scope, revenue and rapid strategic...
Springer signs book agreement with the American Physiological Society
Three book series and individual titles added to Springer’s physiology publishing program
Springer has signed a book partnership agreement with the American Physiological Society (APS)...