SAGE announces several new consortia agreements across Asia for 2008.
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Swets and Innodata Isogen sign outsourcing pact
08 January 2008
Innodata Isogen recently announced that it has signed a master services agreement with Swets, the world's leading subscription services company, to expand their ongoing outsourcing relationship.
AAP and STM criticise new NIH publication policy
08 January 2008
Publisher bodies believe that the new NIH research publication policy undermines intellectual property rights and does not provide funding to implement the requirements.
Thomson Scientific launches Citation Impact Forum
08 January 2008
Thomson Scientific today announced the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about citation-based research evaluation.
US law provides free access to government funded research
07 January 2008
Under new law NIH-funded researchers are required to offer their findings free to the public a year after they are published commercially.
Digital imperative brings more publications online
07 January 2008
Technology provider Ingenta announces 16 new publisher clients and 16 client renewals.
30 millionth DOI for CrossRef
07 January 2008
Multi-publisher linking association, CrossRef, announces its 30 millionth Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Money-saving collaboration between American university presses
07 January 2008
Top university presses announce a collaboration to find a way to reduce costs of scholarly publishing and to allow for more books to be released.
Scientific document delivery agreement endorsed
04 January 2008
Representatives of Subito e.V., scientific libraries, and various international publishers have endorsed a framework agreement within German speaking countries.
Columbia University joins GoogleBook Search
17 December 2007
Columbia University has become the 27th library to join with Google Book Search to digitise works from its collections.
Top physics labs sign up to open access
17 December 2007
PhysMath Central has struck membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories.
OCLC plans cataloguing and metadata pilot
17 December 2007
OCLC will explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream and enhancing that metadata in WorldCat.
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