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Consolidation has been a key feature of the STM information market in recent years. While there are still many small publishers of STM information,…

There are many good reasons for providing open access to scientific publications (economic, educational, and scientific aspects). Some of the most important advantages of…

All libraries are important resources and exist to make what they have available to anyone who needs them. But some libraries are also repositories…

Two years ago, the Canadian electronic publishing giant Thomson lost a battle with its much smaller US rival, MicroPatent, to acquire the sophisticated patent…

Recent reports that our digital family photographs, carefully burned on to CD-ROMs, can in fact become unreadable and corrupt after a few years has…

'Only two groups are really secure in their roles in the publishing supply chain and they are the authors and the users,' believes Ian…

Online STM industry passes annual health check In 2003, European sales of online scientific, technical and medical (STM) information increased by 24 per cent…

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) was founded in 1931 in response to funding problems brought on by the Great Depression. At the urging…

Blackwell Publishing recently carried out a survey with the Association of Learned Professional and Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP) on what societies do with their publishing…

The word 'agriculture' sometimes seems slightly unfashionable to those of us in the western world today. Not necessarily something you would associate with cutting-edge…

We all have an important role to play in the STM community: scientists, researchers, authors, editors, doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners, librarians and…

According to last year's Scholarly Publishing Practice report from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) 75 per cent of all journals…