Pfizer signs deal to cover open-access publication costs
11 May 2009
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has signed a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by its researchers
Publishing news
Article tools can help pirates
7 May 2009
Online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'article tools' on their web pages
Oxford Journals releases title to preservation services
27 April 2009
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
24 April 2009
Lightning Source has launched an Espresso Book Machine (EBM) title pilot with On Demand Books
IOS Press electronic access agreed across China
8 April 2009
IOS Press and NSTL have signed a three-year contract for China-wide access
Publishers endorse TRANSFER
26 March 2009
The UKSG's TRANSFER Code of Practice has now been endorsed by 20 publishers
Ringgold and DataSalon partner to analyse publishers' customer data
18 March 2009
Ringgold and DataSalon are partnering to help publishers understand their customers better
Gale and YBP Library Services agree on e-book distribution
17 March 2009
YBP Library Services will distribute Gale's e-books to academic libraries
Hindawi's monthly submissions exceed 1000
3 March 2009
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
19 February 2009
BioMed Central's Journal of Biology hopes to end 'peer review nightmare', writes Rebecca Pool
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Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
