Pfizer signs deal to cover open-access publication costs
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has signed a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by its researchers
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Article tools can help pirates
Online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'article tools' on…
Oxford Journals releases title to preservation services
Online access to the discontinued journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention is being maintained through CLOCKSS and Portico
Publishers try out Espresso Book Machine pilot programme
Lightning Source has launched an Espresso Book Machine (EBM) title pilot with On Demand Books
IOS Press electronic access agreed across China
IOS Press and NSTL have signed a three-year contract for China-wide access
Publishers endorse TRANSFER
The UKSG's TRANSFER Code of Practice has now been endorsed by 20 publishers
Ringgold and DataSalon partner to analyse publishers’ customer data
Ringgold and DataSalon are partnering to help publishers understand their customers better
Gale and YBP Library Services agree on e-book distribution
YBP Library Services will distribute Gale's e-books to academic libraries
Hindawi’s monthly submissions exceed 1000
Egypt-based open-access publisher Hindawi received more than 1000 manuscript submissions to its open-access journal collection for the first time in February 2009.
Biology journal shortens peer-review process
BioMed Central's Journal of Biology hopes to end 'peer review nightmare', writes Rebecca Pool
Ingram makes changes at the top
James Gray, who was president and CEO of Ingram Digital, has been named as chief strategy officer of the Ingram content companies. Mike Lovett…
Partnership helps reveal rights
A new partnership between Copyright Clearance Center and Reprints Desk aims to help corporations get the most value from their investments in content