Publishing news

Semantico is working with Bioscientifica to develop Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (EDM) Case Reports, the publisher's new open-access publication

Nature and the Nature Research journals are introducing new measures to improve the consistency and quality of reporting in the life sciences research they publish.

BMJ has teamed up with IC Tomorrow, part of the Technology Strategy Board, in a UK-wide competition to help encourage digital innovation in the healthcare sector

The Book Industry Study Group, a USA-based trade association representing the book supply chain, has selected Ingram Content Group's CoreSource platform to manage digital assets and distribute e-content worldwide

SAGE sets up Asia Pacific office as wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) in China

Sparrows, a provider of oilfield engineering services, has selected Knovel to increase efficiency in its global business by enabling its engineering teams to work 'smarter and faster' with access to a consistent source of engineering references

ACCUCOMS has established a team in Turkey to train end users of scholarly publications

Elsevier, a provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and technology publisher O''eilly Media, have announced that O'Reilly will distribute many of Elsevier's academic, research-focused ebooks

Ingram Content Group has expanded its CoreSource platform to include direct distribution to the British Library, making it easy for publishers to comply with United Kingdom legal deposit law.

Springer has announced a major deal with the Virtual Library of Virginia and the Washington Research Library Consortium