STM information market still looks healthy
Online STM industry passes annual health check In 2003, European sales of online scientific, technical and medical (STM) information increased by 24 per cent…
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…
Twenty years ago two forward-thinking organisations in Germany and America realised that the future of scientific and technical research was online. They also anticipated…
The future of STM research depends on access to the discoveries of the past, and any scientist will agree that the archives of Nature…
For information managers, clinicians, researchers and academic professionals, the proliferation of information has made it increasingly challenging to find the right resources, when they…
The 21st century is bringing rapid changes to STM journal publishing, particularly as online becomes the primary medium for journal distribution. Although disciplines differ…
Imagine yourself with an information problem. Not a lack of information, but too much information. How much information is too much? And, how can…
The organisational merger between the two scientific publishing companies Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) that was announced in February 2004 has now largely…