Publishing news

Knovel adds publications from ASTM International to its online technical reference collection

EBSCO Publishing has bought ten social science print indexes from Sage with a view to publishing online

BIA Digital Partners invests $10m in Eli Research to boost strategic growth

New initiative warns public against the risks of government interference to scientific publishing

Dutch investment firm, Gilde, buys subscription agent, Royal Swets and Zeitlinger, with plans to expand business into new markets

US digital content provider, Proquest, claims its social sciences database, Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas (Prisma), now holds more than 100 full text journals

Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has penned a five year deal with Italy's largest university consortium

In a bid to drive so-called open access publishing forward, the Swiss National Science Foundation reveals a new directive on open access for SNSF-sponsored researchers

Electronic book business, ebrary, has teamed up with University of Virginia Press, Allen & Unwin and other publishers to make more 'eBooks' available to libraries worldwide