Elizabeth Jones is the new senior vice president of periodic publications at the American Medical Association
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TEMIS opens UK office
Text analytics provider TEMIS is opening a UK office to better serve publishing and life sciences clients
Gale and De Gruyter agree on distribution
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will distribute De Gruyter periodicals through a number of its academic resources
RCN Publishing appoints new MD
The Royal College of Nursing has appointed Rhonda Oliver as the new managing director/publisher at RCN Publishing
Google Books settlement could violate international law
The proposed Google Books settlement could violate international laws and treaties, argues new analysis from the Open Book Alliance
Thieme joins CLOCKSS
Thieme Publishing Group has joined CLOCKSS, a non-profit initiative to preserve academic digital content
Italian universities gets Scopus access
Researchers in 60 Italian universities get access to Elsevier's abstract and citation database in new deal
Thomson Reuters acquires Brazilian legal publisher
Thomson Reuters has acquired Revista dos Tribunais
Begell House preserves e-journals with Portico
Begell House will preserve all its 38 e-journals with Portico
Research institutions back US open-access bill
The provosts and presidents of 27 major private and public research institutions in the USA have voiced their support for the new Federal Research Public Access Act
IOP Publishing announces new managing director
Steven Hall will be the new managing director of IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the UK's Institute of Physics
Pressure to publish impacts research quality
The growing pressure to produce publishable results can adversely impact the quality of scientific research, according to new EU-funded research published in the journal PLoS ONE