Publishing news

The American Institute of Physics has signed up to guidelines that help ensure that journal content remains easily accessible when journals transfer between parties

Online versions of all AIP's journals will soon reside in the dark archive, CLOCKSS

Wolters Kluwer Health will preserve more than 300 periodicals in Portico

Walter de Gruyter is preserving approximately 1,200 e-book titles with Portico

The historical archive of the scientific publishing house Springer will soon be kept by Berlin's Central and Regional Library

Subscription agent Swets has chosen Eduard Cohen to be its new chief executive officer

The Royal Society of Chemistry has bought ChemSpider, a free online service providing a structure-centric community for chemists

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has signed a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by its researchers

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

Online access to the discontinued journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention is being maintained through CLOCKSS and Portico