Some members of the UKSG Publications and Editorial Subcommittee consider the past year from their various perspectives and venture a guess or two about what 2012 might bring.
UKSG and NASIG are seeking applicants for the 2012 John Merriman Award, and the deadline for applications is 30 January 2012.
The programme for the UKSG Conference is now confirmed, delegate booking is open, exhibitor stand bookings will be available shortly, and applications are being invited for the ACS Publications UKSG Travel Scholarship.
Andy Henrys, West Cheshire College, considers the UKSG E-Resources for Further Education seminar he attended in December and how he might put into practice some of the ideas which were presented.
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO Standard whose scope is the identification of public identities across multiple fields of creative activities.
NISO has announced the availability of NISO SUSHI Protocol: COUNTER-SUSHI Implementation Profile (NISO RP-14-201X) for a public comment period ending on 20 January 2012.
ACCUCOMS has made available a white paper on multi-purpose platforms - 'Multi-Publisher, Multi-Purpose Platforms: Current Trends and Suggestions for the Future'.
The report of a survey into the use of RFID in libraries is available for purchase.
The December 2011 SUNCAT Newsletter is available via the SUNCAT website.
Swets has announced that it has recently signed contracts that will see the publications of Brepols, Cairn.info, JST, NecPlus and RMIT Publishing made available in SwetsWise Online Content.
Ingram Publisher Services, an Ingram Content Group Company, has announced an agreement with Granta Publications.
HARRASSOWITZ has announced a new sales representation agreement with Statista, the platform for market data and facts on over 60,000 topics.
The American Society for Microbiology and Publishing Technology have announced a partnership to create a digital platform to host all of the organisation’s published content.
HarperCollins Publishers has selected Ingram Publisher Services and Spring Arbor as its exclusive distributor to the Christian market.
Ex Libris Group has announced the launch of the North American early adopter programme for the Alma library management service.
HCPro has purchased Luxid, the semantic content enrichment software solution from TEMIS, which has also announced a new contract with Karger.
Semantico's SIPP2 product has been used to power a revised version of BrillOnline for reference works and bibliographies.
Lund University Libraries has launched the Summon service as the primary starting point for research on its website.
Özyeğin University in Turkey has selected EBSCO Discovery Service as its search tool.
Taylor & Francis has launched a range of open access options via the Taylor & Francis Open programme.
Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies, have announced the launch of 'ChemPlusChem', a multidisciplinary chemistry journal.
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive: SIAM, UKSG, the Society for Leukocyte Biology, FASEB, and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
SAGE and the European Society of Cardiology have announced the launch of the 'European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care'.
The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery has announced the launch of 'Bone & Joint Research', a new open access journal.
Maney Publishing will publish the 'International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health' from 2012.
The Fall 2011 issue of NISO’s 'Information Standards Quarterly' magazine is now available in open access in PDF from the NISO website.
Project MUSE's new interface, featuring book and journal content integrated on a single platform, is up and running.
ExPub is expanding its collection of chemical hazard data with the addition of The Teratogen Information System and Shepard’s Catalog of Teratogenic Agents.
Credo Reference has announced a new partnership with Marshall Cavendish, a publisher of non-fiction series, children’s books, and reference titles.
'Thieme Teaching Assistant', a web-based platform for teachers and students, now contains full-colour images from three of Thieme’s physiology and pharmacology titles.
Stephen Pickles and Graham Bulpitt have both retired.
Presentations from the SCONUL annual conference are available on the SCONUL website.
Nature has honoured three French scientists - Jean Rossier, Moshe Yaniv, and Barbara Demeneix - for their outstanding efforts to mentor young researchers.
Masao Matsuoka, from the Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan has been announced as the recipient of the 2011 M Jeang Retrovirology Prize.