Inspec reaches 10 millionth article
27 June 2008
Inspec, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)'s bibliographic database now has over 10 million records.
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Publishing news
Elsevier to contribute millions of articles to CrossCheck
27 June 2008
Elsevier is implementing CrossCheck to help combat plagiarism.
ebrary partners with Ambassador
24 June 2008
Ambassador Books and Media partners with ebrary for new e-book offering.
Proquest buys Dialog
16 June 2008
ProQuest will acquire the Dialog business of Thomson Reuters.
Wiley-Blackwell signs new national backfile licences
15 June 2008
Wiley-Blackwell completes agreements to provide access to nearly 400 journal backfiles to research institutions in Germany.
DAREnet integrates with scientific information portal NARCIS
15 June 2008
DAREnet, the network of digital academic repositories in the Netherlands, becomes part of the Dutch scientific information portal NARCIS.
Convera to build vertical search application for IOP
15 June 2008
Convera has signed an agreement with IOP to develop a customised vertical web search application.
Competition prompts information innovation in life-sciences
8 June 2008
Elsevier invites the scientific community to innovate how life-sciences information is used in online text databases.
Wiley chooses LibreDigital
7 June 2008
Wiley partners with LibreDigital to deliver e-book, custom content, and discovery tools.
New Nielsen figures published
6 June 2008
Nielsen Book announces UK book production figures for 2007
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Latest issue
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Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
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From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
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There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
Tasha Mellins-Cohen
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Tony Roche
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference
