2007 Publishing Trends news

Top physics labs sign up to open access

17 December 2007
PhysMath Central has struck membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories.

New site provides test bed for copyright services

13 December 2007
Copyright Clearance Center has launched a testing ground for new services, applications and products

SAGE-Hindawi OA platform launches

11 December 2007
The open-access joint-venture between SAGE and Hindawi was officially launched at Online Information in London.

ACAP standard goes live

29 November 2007
A new open standard for publishers and search engines has been unveiled which aims to end clashes between publishers and search engines.

Springer chooses platform from MPS

29 November 2007
Springer has chosen MPS Technologies' JournalStore as the platform for Springer Protocols.

JSTOR renews Apex CoVantage partnership

15 November 2007
JSTOR, which archives scholarly content, has extended its 10-year relationship with knowledge process outsourcing company Apex CoVantage.

BMJ boosts activities in China

5 November 2007
The BMJ Group has opened a sales office in Beijing.

Thomson provides citation data to Australian government

2 November 2007
Thomson Scientific will provide citation data to Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training.

New web fonts show maths symbols properly on any computer

1 November 2007
A group of scientific publishers has released a beta test version of the STIX Fonts, which should enable mathematical and scientific symbols to be rendered correctly on any computer.

New deal promotes engineering journals in Eastern Europe and Latin America

30 October 2007
Professional Engineering Publishing has signed an agreement with EMpact to promote its journals in parts of Eastern Europe and Latin America.

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2007 Archive

Nature Publishing Group gets new MD

22 October 2007

Wiley-Blackwell and ISTE team up for book publishing

10 October 2007

New England Journal of Medicine picks Manuscript Central

10 October 2007

Swets acquires ScholarlyStats

2 October 2007

Geological Society plans developing-world initiative

2 October 2007

Springer reorganises STM division

1 October 2007

Thomson acquires Prous Science

1 October 2007

Project Prospect scoops award

17 September 2007

Knovel and ASTM seal online publication deal

13 September 2007

EBSCO buys Sage indexes

30 August 2007

Eli Research bags multi-million dollar investment

29 August 2007

US coalition defends 'publishing integrity'

28 August 2007

Gilde acquires Royal Swets and Zeitlinger

22 August 2007

Proquest's Prisma tops 100 titles

17 August 2007

Emerald clinches deal with Italian universities

16 August 2007

SNSF unveils open access directive

15 August 2007

Ebrary cuts 'eBook' deal with new publishers

9 August 2007

Brill to launch online archive with Ingenta

2 August 2007

Ovid and OUP expand e-books partnership

17 July 2007

SAGE and Hammill partner on special education journals

16 July 2007

Springer to acquire Spektrum Akademischer Verlag

16 July 2007

Accucoms expands its business in Latin America

11 July 2007

Wiley extends partnership with AIChE

10 July 2007

Emerald acquires information and computing titles

25 June 2007

TG Publishing and Wiley announce e-book partnership

20 June 2007

Oxford Journals tries out new approach to open access

19 June 2007

Reed Elsevier will stop its defence shows

4 June 2007

Edinburgh University Press selects Atypon

29 May 2007

New society helps editors

17 May 2007

SAGE becomes Transfer Compliant

14 May 2007

Former Ingenta CEO leaves merged company

8 May 2007

Australian institutes pick Scopus

26 April 2007

Study shows subscription price variations

16 April 2007

Blackwell's books platform becomes COUNTER-compliant

29 March 2007

Wolters Kluwer sells Education division

29 March 2007

Oxford Journals opens Chinese office

29 March 2007

German researchers get Emerald archive

22 March 2007

Elsevier acquires Beilstein Database

8 March 2007

Apex takes on medical digitisation project

1 March 2007

Publishing Technology lists on AIM

27 February 2007

European partners explore cross-border licences

26 February 2007

Hindawi completes OA conversion

23 February 2007

Springer boosts social science programme

22 February 2007

ProQuest joins CSA

15 February 2007

Social-science publishers pick ScholarOne

6 February 2007

VISTA and Ingenta merge

6 February 2007

Wiley completes Blackwell acquisition

5 February 2007

Early Royal Society papers get DOIs

22 January 2007

JSTOR picks Atypon for content delivery platform

19 January 2007

Crossref links to African and Asian journals

15 January 2007

Bibliometric pioneer picks up lifetime achievement award

15 January 2007

Scirus partners with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

1 September 2006

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