Project Prospect scoops award
RSC Project Prospect from the Royal Society of Chemistry has won the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation.
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Knovel and ASTM seal online publication deal
Knovel adds publications from ASTM International to its online technical reference collection
EBSCO buys Sage indexes
EBSCO Publishing has bought ten social science print indexes from Sage with a view to publishing online
Eli Research bags multi-million dollar investment
BIA Digital Partners invests $10m in Eli Research to boost strategic growth
US coalition defends ‘publishing integrity’
New initiative warns public against the risks of government interference to scientific publishing
Gilde acquires Royal Swets and Zeitlinger
Dutch investment firm, Gilde, buys subscription agent, Royal Swets and Zeitlinger, with plans to expand business into new markets
Proquest’s Prisma tops 100 titles
US digital content provider, Proquest, claims its social sciences database, Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas (Prisma), now holds more than 100 full text…
Emerald clinches deal with Italian universities
Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has penned a five year deal with Italy's largest university consortium
SNSF unveils open access directive
In a bid to drive so-called open access publishing forward, the Swiss National Science Foundation reveals a new directive on open access for SNSF-sponsored…
Scholarly publishers snub Microsoft
Scientific publishers worldwide have refused to publish papers written in Word 2007. Rebecca Pool investigates
Ebrary cuts ‘eBook’ deal with new publishers
Electronic book business, ebrary, has teamed up with University of Virginia Press, Allen & Unwin and other publishers to make more 'eBooks' available to…
Brill to launch online archive with Ingenta
Brill has selected "IngentaConnect" to host its 50,000 article back-file in a bid to give academics the opportunity to search for a broader range…