Guidelines needed to prevent impact-factor abuse
Citations play a big part in assessing a journal's quality but what happens when many of those citations come from papers authored by that…
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THREE-QUESTION SPOTLIGHT: People make the publishing industry
With the annual ALPSP conference approaching, we asked Audrey McCulloch, the new chief executive of the industry organisation, three questions about how she ended…
Wiley sells travel books to Google
Wiley sells travel portfolio to Google as part of strategy to focus on core business
Society for Technical Communication picks Charlesworth
The Charlesworth Group will provide XML and finished pages for the Society for Technical Communication's journal and magazine
Access Innovations works with AIP on semantic enrichment
Access Innovations is working with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to semantically enrich AIP's online full-text collection comprising more than 800,000 scholarly articles…
ASTM chooses services from Scope eKnowledge Center
ASTM International has picked Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content services and MARC cataloguing for its content
RSC initiative aims to ease OA transition
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to gold open access
Earthquake-hit libraries get continued access
Springer extends free access for digital library project in Haiti
Publishers must tackle digital author royalties
Many publishers lack the infrastructure to manage and pay e-books royalties, writes Andy Richardson
Transfer launches Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service
The Transfer project has released a rapid alerting service that will allow publishers to provide a standardised set of information about journal transfers to…
European Parliament rejects ACTA
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been rejected by the European Parliament and cannot become law in the EU or in its member states
Creative industries start work on global rights project
Global project to facilitate the communication and expression of digital rights information in the creative content sector holds first plenary meeting