Swets files for bankruptcy, publishers urge customers to find alternative agents Subscription agent SWETS has written to publishers that to protect the business interests of Swets & Zeitlinger Group BV, the company has requested the court in Amsterdam to declare a suspension of payments of Swets & Zeitlinger Group BV and appoint an administrator. Considering… Read More »
The following titles were published in August. Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth, Second Edition George D. Catalano, State University of New York at Binghamton (Engineers, Technology and Society Series) FPGA-Accelerated Simulation of Computer Systems Hari Angepat, The University of Texas and Microsoft Derek Chiou, Microsoft and The University of Texas Eric S.… Read More »
Scope’s Hot Spot presentation at Frankfurt Book Fair to focus on the role of descriptive metadata & controlled vocabularies in improving semantic linkages Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, will be presenting on “The role of descriptive metadata & controlled vocabularies in improving semantic linkages”… Read More »
Cambridge University Press publishes new textbook on Aboriginal Health Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that it will publish Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care. This new textbook introduces students to the fundamentals of the healthcare of Indigenous Australians, from the perspective of both the patient and the professional. More… Read More »
All CERN-authored articles published in APS journal collection to be Open Access The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have announced 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… Read More »
UK medical research charities join forces to support open access A consortium of six leading UK medical research charities will support the costs of making research articles from their funded research immediately and freely openly available to scientists, patients, and donors alike, through the recently announced joint Charity Open Access Fund. As charitable funders of… Read More »
From augmented reality to zero warehousing, global drivers of innovation at the Frankfurt Hot Spots Payment systems for digital content, video tools for distance learning, potential uses for 3-D technologies, augmented reality in children’s books: the exhibitors at the five Frankfurt Hot Spots offer a wide range of different solutions for all aspects of creating… Read More »
Australian Research Council selects Elsevier’s Scopus for ERA 2015 assessment STM publisher Elsevier recently announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has selected Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific literature, as the bibliometric provider for its 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. This is the third consecutive time Scopus… Read More »
Thomson Reuters and BMJ Publishing collaborate to optimise peer review process The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with British Medical Journals (BMJ), a publisher of healthcare research, to optimise the efficiency of the article peer-review process and solve the industry-wide problem of reviewer fatigue by utilizing ScholarOne Reviewer Locator,… Read More »
2014 ALPSP Award winners announced The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced the winners of the 2014 ALPSP Awards. The winners were announced at the ALPSP International Conference dinner on September 11 at the Park Inn Heathrow Hotel and Conference Centre, London, UK. The Council of ALPSP presented the ALPSP Award… Read More »