BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC – A NEW PUBLISHING IMPRINT WITH AN OPEN CONTENT BUSINESS MODEL

Bloomsbury Publishing announced today that it is launching into academic publishing with a new imprint: Bloomsbury Academic.
All books will be made available free of charge online, with free downloads, for non-commercial purposes immediately upon publication, using Creative Commons licences. The works will also be sold as books, using the latest short-run technologies or Print on [...]

ScienceDirect Updates

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ScienceDirect Updates

For Great Thinking campaign update
Top 25 Q3 results coming soon
You can now order reprints online
ScienceDirect boosts researchers’ productivity with Download Manager

Books Content

eBooks Collection 2009 coming soon
Heath Sciences eBooks to be included on ScienceDirect
Elsevier Partners with Portico for eBook Archiving

Journals Content

New journal added to ScienceDirect
New journals to be launched on ScienceDirect in Q3, 2008
Journals [...]

Springer partners with CiteULike for reference management services

STM publisher Springer has announced that SpringerLink has partnered with CiteULike, the social bookmarking website for researchers. SpringerLink is claimed to be one of the world’s largest scientific databases. The deal seeks to ensure that researchers using SpringerLink will benefit from reference management services.

August 2008 issue of LiveWire (ACS)

http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians/livewire/2008/9.8/index.html
Get to know ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Editor-in-Chief Kirk S. Schanze
We caught up with Kirk Schanze, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida and inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the newest journal from ACS Publications. Professor Schanze answers our questions about the new journal and his research background.
The American [...]

World Bank e-Library: new platform, new features, same easy access

As a current subscriber to the World Bank e-Library we would like to let you know about some exciting developments concerning this database.
Please allow us to introduce the new e-Library – www.worldbank.org/newelibrary.  The new e-Library contains all World Bank books and working papers, and has many additional features which are not available in [...]

Springer journal news for 2009

Dear Springer Customer,

As of today, the Springer 2009 Journal Subscription Prices are available on springer.com/pricelist.

Excellent Journals Transferring to Springer in 2009

Springer is the publisher of choice for academic and professional societies. So far 34 journals are confirmed moving to Springer for 2009. These include: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, [...]

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New promotional materials: What’s available
What’s new at bmj.com?
Changes to BMJ Journal Medical Humanities
BMJ Clinical Evidence: Editorial highlight
BMJ Clinical Evidence: New conditions
BMJ Case Reports – now accepting submissions
OnExamination.com: Find out more
Why your institution needs DTB
Events: where we’ll be this September…
BMJ Point of Care: Launch of an innovative new clinical resource in North America

Volume 27, Issue 3 of PsycINFO News Available

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In this edition:
Read an interview with Anne Wade, recipient of APA’s second award for Excellence in Librarianship Award. Wade shares insights about her career as well as her views on the current state of the profession.
Discover how to use PsycCRITIQUES for evidence-based research and to find topical information for [...]

Manuscript Deposition Service Nature PG

http://www.nature.com/authors/author_services/deposition.html
In July 2008, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched the first phase of its Manuscript Deposition Service. The free service will help authors fulfil funder and institutional mandates.
A number of funding bodies and institutions have introduced mandates that require authors to self-archive articles in publicly accessible archives. While these mandates apply [...]

MyHein

With the creation of a MyHein account, you can access your saved research anytime. You set up your own user name and password that only you will have access to.
If you do not wish to create a MyHein account, we will still offer you the ability to use the MyHein features for [...]