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Gale and De Gruyter agree on distribution

18 May 2010

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will distribute De Gruyter periodicals through a number of its academic resources

RCN Publishing appoints new MD

18 May 2010

The Royal College of Nursing has appointed Rhonda Oliver as the new managing director/publisher at RCN Publishing

Google Books settlement could violate international law

18 May 2010

The proposed Google Books settlement could violate international laws and treaties, argues new analysis from the Open Book Alliance

Thieme joins CLOCKSS

18 May 2010

Thieme Publishing Group has joined CLOCKSS, a non-profit initiative to preserve academic digital content

Italian universities gets Scopus access

18 May 2010

Researchers in 60 Italian universities get access to Elsevier's abstract and citation database in new deal

Thomson Reuters acquires Brazilian legal publisher

18 May 2010

Thomson Reuters has acquired Revista dos Tribunais

Begell House preserves e-journals with Portico

18 May 2010

Begell House will preserve all its 38 e-journals with Portico

Research institutions back US open-access bill

04 May 2010

The provosts and presidents of 27 major private and public research institutions in the USA have voiced their support for the new Federal Research Public Access Act

IOP Publishing announces new managing director

04 May 2010

Steven Hall will be the new managing director of IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the UK's Institute of Physics

Pressure to publish impacts research quality

28 April 2010

The growing pressure to produce publishable results can adversely impact the quality of scientific research, according to new EU-funded research published in the journal PLoS ONE

Research reveals high level of unpublished clinical data

28 April 2010

Research in the journal Trials reveals that nearly 20 per cent of clinical trials into strokes are not published in full

Software speeds up peer-review analysis

21 April 2010

iD8 Publishing Services is speeding up the process for classifying, sorting and analysing peer reviews using the qualitative data analysis software NVivo 8

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