SPIE Digital Library
30 October 2010
SPIE Digital Library price reduction is extended through 2011
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Engineering
IEEE eLearning Library
18 October 2010
IEEE launches the IEEE eLearning Library
Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly
8 September 2010
Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly comes to Maney Publishing
Journal archives
18 May 2010
Over one-third of Maney journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences, and humanities now have full archives available online
Scientific American's online archive
16 May 2010
Scientific American's archive to 1948 is now available online
Praxis Publishing books
16 May 2010
Springer buys book portfolio from Praxis Publishing
Credo General Reference collection
21 January 2010
Credo Reference is integrating a key glossary of computing from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT into the Credo General Reference collection
MORE OpenChoice
20 January 2010
Maney Publishing has launched an open-access business model
IGI Global Publisher Collection
3 December 2009
Credo Reference is launching an IGI Global Publisher Collection
EBSCOhost
20 October 2009
EBSCO is making two INIST-CNRS databases available on EBSCOhost
Pages
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From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli