(14 October 2014) The International Publishers Association website reports on a comprehensive guide to market conditions for publishing across the dynamic ASEAN region. Stan Gunn from Edge Ventures assesses the piracy challenge and conditions for bookstores, reveals which national markets and sectors are best poised for growth and assesses changes in book buying and reading…
(13 October 2014, Stuttgart) Thieme Chemistry has relaunched its web website for chemists. Along with a new design, the expanded http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/ features improved technology and an optimized user-friendly interface. Users now enjoy even faster access to the comprehensive content as well as Thieme Group products for chemists. The comprehensive product portfolio focused on organic chemistry…
(8 October 2014, New York) Springer’s signature materials database – SpringerMaterials – has gotten a total overhaul to make the new site more nimble and user friendly. And the changes are far more than cosmetic as the entire site has been migrated to the same technology as the publisher’s flagship platform, SpringerLink. By leveraging the same…
(9 October 2014) Following the recent announcement that Swets Subscription Agents requested the court declare a suspension of payments and appoint an administrator, Swets Information Services B.V. bankruptcy has been announced. Please see the message on Swets website: http://www.swets.com/news/swets-information-services-bv-declared-bankrupt. In light of this, it is essential that you send subscription renewals and payments for SAGE…
(8 October 2014, Farmington Hills, Mich) New content covering popular healthcare and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics is now available on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), the eBook platform offered by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. The signing of publishers Taylor & Francis, Mitchell Lane, HCPro and World Scientific combined will add approximately…
(23 September 2014) Cambridge University Press, who has been active in South Asia for the last decade is delighted to announce the launch of a world class ‘Centre for Excellence’ for the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation in New Delhi. Not only does this further demonstrate the commitment made by Cambridge University Press to…
(23 September 2014) Nature Communications is to become the first Nature-branded open access only journal. The number one open access journal in multidisciplinary sciences (according to 2013 Journal Citation Reports), Nature Communications is Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) flagship open access title. Nature Communications will only accept open access research submissions from 20th October 2014. Nature…
(18 September 2014, Geneva) The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN1) jointly announce a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be open access. Articles in APS’ Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C in 2015 and 2016 will be…
(11 September 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA) East View Information Services and Cambridge University Press have launched Cambridge Archive Editions Online. Over 1,000 volumes, nearly 600,000 pages and nearly 1,000 maps have been scanned and loaded onto the East View eBook platform. The product is immediately available for trials and for purchase. The collection has been…
(12 September 2014, Philadelphia) Thomson Reuters is collaborating with British Medical Journals (BMJ) to optimize the efficiency of the article peer-review process and solve the industry-wide problem of reviewer fatigue by utilizing ScholarOneTM Reviewer Locator, an extension of ScholarOne Manuscripts, the innovative peer-review and online submission program for scholarly publishers. As part of ScholarOne Manuscripts,…
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