VISTA and Ingenta merge
Two major technology providers are joining together to form Publishing Technology.
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Social-science publishers pick ScholarOne
Emerald and Multilingual Matters have both chosen ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review systems.
Wiley completes Blackwell acquisition
Wiley has finalised its acquisition of Blackwell Publishing.
Over 15,000 sign open-access petition
The petition urging the European Commission to support open access has attracted over 15,000 signatories in its first two weeks.
First French partner joins LOCKSS Alliance
The Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has become the first French member of…
Global science gateway formed
The US Department of Energy and the British Library have teamed up to make international science information resources accessible via a single internet portal.
Early Royal Society papers get DOIs
The Royal Society has registered all of its historical back-file content with CrossRef.
Partners join Innovative’s Encore development
Innovative Interfaces has signed up four new development partners for its Encore platform.
JSTOR picks Atypon for content delivery platform
JSTOR and Atypon Systems have teamed up to develop a new software platform for publications archived with JSTOR.
Thomson provides data for research trends study
Thomson Scientific is supplying journal literature information to The Patent Board for a study of scientific research trends on behalf of the US National…
European Commission asked to support open access
A group of European organisations are calling on the European Commission to support public access to the output of EC-funded research shortly after publication.
ebrary and YBP distribute e-books
Provider of e-content services, ebrary, has partnered with YBP Library Services, which provide materials to the academic library community.