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SpringerWienNewYork and Versita strengthen partnership in Central Europe

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

SpringerWienNewYork and Versita are working together to distribute, market, and sell STM journals from Central European societies and other institutions

US grants support digitisation

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The US Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in grant funds for international digitisation projects

Student support grows for open access

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The student Right to Research Coalition now represents more than five million students in the USA and around the world

Coutts supplies e-books to Scottish academic libraries

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Scotland's APUC (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges) Limited has selected Coutts and MyiLibrary together as one of three suppliers of e-books

Dawson Books picks up Scandinavian contracts

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Dawson Books has announced a series of recent tender awards in Norway and Sweden

Academic publisher and sporting body strike deal

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Multi-Science Publishing and the Professional Golfers Association have agreed a licence that will give the association's members unrestricted online access to several peer-reviewed sports titles

De Gruyter and Versita cooperate on Eastern Europe

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Academic publishers cooperate in the publication and sales of journals from Eastern Europe and books from Eastern and Central Europe

Guide reviews open-access income models

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

SPARC has published a guide that reviews the sustainability of current and propective open-access publishers.

French Sudoc records added to WorldCat

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Nine million records from French academic libraries will be added into WorldCat

PubMed Central Canada launches

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Canadians will soon have free access to their own archive of health science literature

Researchers concerned about mixed messages

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about how they should communicate their research findings

Toby Green will be next chair of ALPSP

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Toby Green, head of publishing at OECD, was elected as the next chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

ALPSP announces award winners

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

ALPSP announced the winners of its 2009 Awards at the ALPSP International Conference dinner in September

Physicists get new research network

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Sian Harris finds out about a new social network to help physicists work together and share information

Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review, according to preliminary findings from an international surveys of authors and reviewers, the Peer Review Survey 2009