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By Richard GedyeThe future of scholarly journals publishing is increasingly an electronic one. Trends in the past two years show that scientists are reading…

By Arie JongejanSwets: driving e-journals managementMore than a year has passed since Swets first launched its far-reaching E-Journals Management Drive to reduce the complexities…

John Wiley & Sons is one of the best-known names in non-fiction publishing. It boasts nearly 200 years of history and today is known…

There are few activities less inspiring than making lists. Useful it may well be - and certainly the process of cataloguing, grouping and ordering…

In December 2003 The Wall Street Journal ranked open-access publishing as one of the 10 most important health stories of the year. Its origins…

A few years ago I proposed a new model for academic journal publishing, which I called the Deconstructed Journal (DJ) model. The DJ model…

Over the next five years, the European Commission hopes to increase the share of GDP taken by R&D expenditure and to increase the share…

For most librarians the daily challenge is to get the most up-to-date information to the people who need it. But certain libraries are also…

Swets has continued to divest its smaller businesses by selling Extenza e-Publishing Services (EPS) and Extenza Marketing Solutions (EMS). This follows a similar pattern…

People looking for scholarly information can find it difficult to know where to start. There is so much to choose from, even when we…

The average increases in journal prices over the period from 2000 to 2004 varied from 27 per cent to 94 per cent, depending on…

The annals of the pharmaceutical industry are filled with stories about how a substance made for one reason is found to actually be the…