Publishers oppose government mandates
A coalition of 75 nonprofit publishers has made a statement opposing any legislation that would 'abruptly end a publishing system that has nurtured independent…
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Open-access petition presented to EC
The petition calling on the European Commission to adopt polices to guarantee free public access to research results has been delivered to the EU…
SirsiDynix CEO resigns
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
Pharmaceutical companies plan increasing e-journals emphasis
A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such…
ProQuest joins CSA
Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has acquired ProQuest Information and Learning, which it will combine with its CSA subsidiary.
Public library signs up for Wiley’s STM resources
The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library has licensed Wiley's peer-reviewed journals.
Germany’s researchers gain more archive information
Ovid and Elsevier are providing researchers across Germany with access to scientific journal and database archives.
Princeton University joins Google’s library project
Princeton University, USA, has joined the Google Library Project and will digitise approximately one million public-domain books from its collections.
VISTA and Ingenta merge
Two major technology providers are joining together to form Publishing Technology.
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.