Delegates who attended the recent UKSG ‘A Problem Shared?’ conference on shared services offer their perspectives of the event. Alison Jones and Bethan Creighton give the publisher take on the day, Mick Archer offers his view of what libraries should be taking on board from the conference, and Simon Bevan summarises the presentations.
The November issue of 'Serials' is now available to view via the UKSG website.
Serials-eNews is changing its name.
UKSG and NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) are seeking applicants for the 2012 John Merriman Award.
JISC Collections is formally launching a new service to consolidate and host a broad range of content including journal archives, historic books and multimedia items.
The UK Government has announced that it will be undertaking a feasibility study into the development of a Digital Copyright Exchange for the UK.
A new report on information handling in collaborative research has been published by RIN.
Credo Reference has revealed its new corporate website.
The University of Arizona has become the first academic institute in the United States to adopt 'Open Repository', a service from open access publisher BioMed Central.
Peking University has launched its implementation of Serials Solutions' Summon service.
SAGE has signed a multi-year agreement with TEMIS.
EBSCO has introduced two new German-Language search enhancements — an improved umlaut search and increased support for variants.
The Company of Biologists has announced a mobile-optimised web interface for its journals.
Credo Reference and Brill Publishing have announced a new agreement.
GeoScienceWorld has announced a set of portal upgrades.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has announced a new journal in the field of hospital medicine, 'Hospital Pediatrics'.
STM and business publisher, Inderscience, has recently published the first issues of six new titles.
Mary Ann Liebert has announced the launch of 'Disruptive Science and Technology', a bimonthly journal that seeks to publish game-changing research that has the potential to significantly improve human health, well-being, and productivity.
Maney Publishing to publish 'The Chinese Historical Review', the journal of The Chinese Historians in the United States, and the 'European Journal of Archaeology', the official journal of the European Association of Archaeologists.
East View Press has announced the creation of 'The Current Digest of the Chinese Press'.
SAGE has chosen by the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society to publish 'Clinical EEG and Neuroscience', beginning in January 2012.
Wiley-Blackwell have announced two new OA journals; 'Food and Energy Security', published with The Association of Applied Biologists, and the 'Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease', published in partnership with The American Heart Association.
Wiley-VCH has announced the launch of the journal 'Advanced Healthcare Materials', a new journal dedicated to publishing all aspects of materials science in medicine and biotechnology.
The ISPG is offering NESLi2 SMP members an additional top up fee to their current spend, in order to gain access to the whole ISPG collection.
Edinburgh University Press journals are now available under a new NESLi2 licence.
JISC Collections has licensed in perpetuity a number of digital archives from ProQuest. As each sub-licence agreement comes up for renewal JISC Collections will be introducing access fees.
Project MUSE's introductory pricing offer for its UPCC Book Collections finishes on 15 December 2011, and book and journal content is now available on the beta site.
The 'Journal of Scholarly Publishing' has introduced Essential JSP: Critical Insights into the World of Scholarly Publishing, which brings together articles from the 'Journal of Scholarly Publishing' with introductions, bibliographies, statistics tables and analysis.
Palgrave Macmillan has reported that 4,760 of its scholarly books have been included in the Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index at launch.
DynaMed and Faculty of 1000 have formed a partnership with the aim of better serving the needs of medical professionals looking for rapid access to medical evidence.
Publishing Technology has appointed Peter Blok as EVP of Global Professional Services and member of the executive team.
EBSCO Discovery Service has been named the silver winner in Best New Service of the Year in Best in Biz Awards.
The John Cotton Dana Award, provided in conjunction with the H W Wilson Foundation, the American Library Association and EBSCO Publishing, is being expanded to include eight $10,000 grants.