Publishing news

Professional Engineering Publishing has signed an agreement with EMpact to promote its journals in parts of Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Steven Inchcoombe is the new managing director of Nature Publishing Group (NPG). He succeeds Annette Thomas who was recently made CEO of Macmillan.

Wiley-Blackwell will become ISTE's exclusive co-publisher in the Americas, Asia, and other territories worldwide, from January 2008.

The Massachusetts Medical Society has selected ScholarOne's Manuscript Central to be the online peer review system for its New England Journal of Medicine.

Swets has acquired exclusive rights to MPS Technologies' usage-statistics product, ScholarlyStats.

The Geological Society of London will make all the content from its digitised publications freely available to researchers in developing countries.

Springer has reorganised its global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing division into global and local publishing.

Thomson has acquired Prous Science, a provider of information solutions to help knowledge-based drug discovery and development.

RSC Project Prospect from the Royal Society of Chemistry has won the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation.

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