Considering the future scientific journal
10 September 2012
In conversations at the Special Libraries Association meeting in July, Tom Wilkie heard a variety of views about the future of the learned journal
Publishing news
Guidelines needed to prevent impact-factor abuse
29 August 2012
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 journal's editorial board? Paul Peters considers the need to establish guidelines for appropriate citation practices
THREE-QUESTION SPOTLIGHT: People make the publishing industry
22 August 2012
With the annual ALPSP conference approaching, we asked Audrey McCulloch, the new chief executive of the industry organisation, three questions about how she ended up in scholarly publishing and the best - and worst - things about the industry
Access Innovations works with AIP on semantic enrichment
22 August 2012
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 published in its academic journals since the 1930s
Society for Technical Communication picks Charlesworth
22 August 2012
The Charlesworth Group will provide XML and finished pages for the Society for Technical Communication's journal and magazine
Wiley sells travel books to Google
22 August 2012
Wiley sells travel portfolio to Google as part of strategy to focus on core business
ASTM chooses services from Scope eKnowledge Center
21 August 2012
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
18 July 2012
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
16 July 2012
Springer extends free access for digital library project in Haiti
Publishers must tackle digital author royalties
11 July 2012
Many publishers lack the infrastructure to manage and pay e-books royalties, writes Andy Richardson
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