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Brill Open

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Brill’s Open Access Policy
In order to fulfill our task as a publisher to the satisfaction of our authors, editors, readers, and librarians, we have to put certain restrictions on the use of our publications in online repositories and open archives. Open access is allowed in the following cases, always with proper acknowledgement to Brill and [...]

Liverpool University Press and Metapress

PRESS RELEASE
We are pleased to announce that Liverpool University Press will launch its journals electronic content management and hosting services via the MetaPress platform in 2010.
Liverpool University Press has recently expanded rapidly, and now publishes 13 scholarly journals and around 45 new books per annum across the arts and humanities. The journals Town Planning [...]

University of Illinois Press and JSTOR announce agreement

The University of Illinois Press, the publishing division of the University of Illinois, has announced an agreement with JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA. Under the deal, the University of Illinois Press will make leading journals from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship [...]

NPG offers remote searching, desktop widgets via OpenSearch service

Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that it now offers remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch. The new service allows application software to query nature.com, and returns results in
source: KnowledgeSpeak

Elsevier’s New SciVal Products Target Academic Accountability and Strategic Planning

by Nancy Herther
Building on its Scopus foundation, Elsevier recently announced a new product family, SciVal, “a pioneering suite of research tools that helps you evaluate, establish and execute your research strategies more effectively.” The first two products are SciVal Funding and SciVal Spotlight. Each product seeks to meet the specific needs of the research community [...]

RSC Publishing announces first issues publication

The first issues of Analytical Methods and Nanoscale, two of the latest additions to the RSC Publishing journal portfolio, are now freely available online at http://www.rsc.org/methods and http://www.rsc.org/nanoscale.
The current issues of both journals are freely available to all readers via the website until the end of 2010. Free institutional online access to all 2009 and 2010 content [...]

AAAS/Science – Important Changes to the Science Website

We are in the process of migrating www.ScienceOnline.org to Web 2.0.
Starting 28 September 2009, the Science navigation bar will feature a new Science Journals tab.
When you select Science Journals from the menu you will navigate to the Science Journals landing page, where you will be able to access all AAAS journals, including our newest publication, [...]

Elsevier Unveils New Grant-Finding Service

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The scientific publisher Elsevier today started SciVal Funding, a Web-based search service to help American institutions locate grants, particularly collaborative and multidisciplinary ones. The service joins the company’s SciVal Spotlight, a strategy tool aimed at revealing university-research strengths and weaknesses — at a price, The Chronicle reported in June, that could climb to six figures, [...]

Elsevier launches new web platform on mental health research

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new web platform – Elsevier Mental Health. Elsevier Mental Health is a website bringing together information and resources from all of Elsevier’s products and services in clinical psychology, psychiatry and other areas of mental health. It links to online books, journals top cited and top [...]

Elsevier to make 250 Health Sciences eBook titles available via ScienceDirect

STM publisher Elsevier has announced that nearly 250 health sciences titles published and/or publishing in 2009 and 2010 will be launched in October. These new eBook collections cover clinical content in clinical medicine, veterinary medicine, and health professions. Elsevier will make these titles available electronically through ScienceDirect, its online scientific research platform. These new eBook [...]

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