Publishers & Publishing
Tuesday 29 March 2025
- AIP Introduces Library Branding - :: From a message sent by Christine Orr of AIP, which appeared on various listservs:The American Institute of Physics is pleased to announce that beginning this week, all AIP journal abstract pages will carry a message informing users that their... (08:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 18 March 2026
- IoP To Offer "Cited By" Links Using CrossRef - :: From a post on LIBLICENCE-L:In September 2003, we announced that papers in our Electronic Journals had been enhanced by links to citing articles from The American Physical Society and NASA's Astrophysical Data System. I'm pleased to report that our... (16:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 15 March 2026
- Economics of Scientific and Biomedical Journals: Where Do Scholars Stand in the Debate of Online Journal Pricing and Site License Ownership between Libraries and Publishers? - :: The latest issue of First Monday includes the article, Economics of Scientific and Biomedical Journals: Where Do Scholars Stand in the Debate of Online Journal Pricing and Site License Ownership between Libraries and Publishers?, by Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, Andrew C... (08:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 11 March 2026
- International Journal of Rotating Machinery Goes Open Access - :: George Porter forwarded this post from Peter Suber on Open Access News, which will be of interest to engineering librarians, especially mechanical:Hindawi Publishing has announced that The International Journal of Rotating Machinery has converted to open access, effective immediately.... (15:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 22 February 2026
- SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - from Taylor & Francis - :: Taylor & Francis has revised its alert service, SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting:Taylor & Francis currently publishes over 950 academic peer-reviewed journals across a variety of disciplines. In response to the changing needs of the academic community, we... (10:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 8 February 2026
- Online Access to Complete Archive of AIP Journals - :: The American Institute of Physics is offering online access to the entire backfile of AIP journals. From the AIP site:All subscriptions to AIP journals at the institutional rate include access to a five-year online backfile. In 2005, we’re offering... (14:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 13 January 2026
- Article Duplication in Emerald/MCB Journals - Update from Phil Davis - :: As reported some time ago, Cornell U Life Sciences Librarian Phil Davis, through simple keyword searching, identified 409 articles from 67 journals published by Emerald that had been republished between 1989 and 2003, without notification. Davis' initial study will... (10:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 17 December 2025
- Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons - New Report from LISU - :: Joe Kraus, on the ReedElsevier listserv, writes:I read in the SLA rag, Information Outlook, that the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU) of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, UK had written a report -- Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and... (16:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 November 2025
- American Institute of Physics Announces "AIP Author Select" - A New Open Access Initiative for 2005 - :: As posted to PAMNET on 15 November 2004:MELVILLE, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 2025 - The American Institute of Physics announced today that it will offer on a trial basis an open-access publishing option to authors contributing to three AIP... (10:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 12 November 2025
- Springer Survey - :: Springer has a user survey on their site. Send them feedback should you be so moved. (Thanks to Carol Hutchins on PAMNET.)... (08:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 10 November 2025
- Emerald/MCB University Press Republishes 409 Papers Without Citing Original Source - Phil Davis, Cornell U - :: The XXIV Annual Charleston Conference was held last week in Charleston SC. Phil Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer at Cornell University, presented a talk called The Ethics of Republishing: Should journal articles ever be republished? In the presentation, Davis revealed... (10:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 November 2025
- Free Access to October 2004 Issue of IoP's Nanotechnology Extended to End of 2004 - The October issue of IoP's Nanotechnology contains selected papers from the inaugural conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration (NDSI-2004) held in Miami, Florida, 15-19 February, 2004. Nanotechnology is a truly multidisciplinary endeavor at the frontiers of chemistry, physics, materials... (11:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 2 November 2025
- IEEE To Cease Print Versions of Conference Proceedings in 2006 - :: Christina Pikas reports that IEEE will cease publication of the print versions of their conferences, beginning in 2006. Availability will be online only. There is no "official word" about this from IEEE just yet, but expect a press release... (10:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 28 October 2025
- Platinum Metals Review Available Free Online - :: Following up the previous post on the PMG Database, Dr Keith White, Editorial/Information Scientist, Platinum Metals Review, sent the following note regarding the journal:Platinum Metals Review is free. As from the July 2004 issue, Johnson Matthey's science journal Platinum... (09:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Monday 18 October 2025
- NRC (Canada) Research Press Drops 2005 Journal Prices by 2.5% - :: The NRC Research Press, publishers of 15 of Canada's most prestigious scholarly titles, has announced a reduction of 2.5% in its site licence prices for 2005. The price reduction affects these titles:Biochemistry and Cell Biology Canadian Geotechnical Journal Canadian... (09:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 23 September 2025
- CrossRef Search - Commentary - Bob Michaelson at Northwestern offers the following observations about CrossRef Search, as posted to CHMINF-L:CrossRef Search is a pilot initiative running in 2004 in collaboration with Google, and now includes the content of 29 publishers (out of the 650 CrossRef... (11:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 22 September 2025
- Swets: About To Implode, or Stable? - :: The following article appeared in the Dutch Financial Times (het Financieele Dagblad) on Monday, 20th September, 2004:AMSTERDAM - Swets & Zeitlinger, Dutch distributors of scientific information, are in trouble. The business needs refinancing after it was found that it... (11:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 21 September 2025
- IEEE Title Change - Again! - :: George Porter notes the following title change (actually a split into two new titles). This is one of those "what the - ??" moments, that makes you wonder if someone at IEEE lost it for a moment when this... (11:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 24 August 2025
- Real-Time Document Request™ (RDR™) Ranking Establishes New Method of Evaluating Scientific Journals - :: Press Release: CAS Science Spotlight Ratings Show Journals' Significance for Scientists Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - Recording how often a journal's contents are cited in scientific literature has long been the conventional way of measuring the importance of specific... (13:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Developments at IEEE Xplore - :: New journal debuts on IEEE Xplore, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. The ACM Digital Library version of this journal is not yet available. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Fulltext v1+ (2004+) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=8857 ISSN: 1545-5963 Unfortunately,... (12:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 23 August 2025
- CAS Extends Access to Additional Research from Early 20th Century - :: As posted to CHMINF-L. CAS Extends Access to Additional Research from Early 20th Century CA Databases Add More Than 7,000 Publication Records back to 1900 Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - CAS has expanded its "Scientific Century" project by making... (10:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 19 August 2025
- Cell Press Announces Free Access to Recent Online Archive - :: From the Cell web site:Cell Press is pleased to announce that access to the recent online archive of Cell and the other premier journals of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent... (09:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Friday 13 August 2025
- Four IOP Journals Move to Taylor & Francis - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: There has been ongoing dialog regarding the transfer of four IoP journals to Taylor & Francis. David Stern (Yale) provided comments, and Steve Moss (IoP) responded. Dana Roth (Caltech), continues the discussion, and writes the following on SLA-PAM: I... (14:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 29 July 2025
- IoP Responds to Concerns Over Four IOP Journals Moving to Taylor & Francis - :: On PAMNET, Steve Moss, VP of IoP Publishing, responds to David Stern's comments regarding the sale of four IoP journals to Taylor and Francis:Dear David, Please be assured that IOP will never become a "breeding ground for eventual commercial... (10:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 28 July 2025
- Four IOP Journals move to Taylor & Francis - Commentary from David Stern - :: The Institute of Physics Publishing announced on July 19, 2004, the sale of four of their journals: Waves in Random Media, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Combustion Theory and Modelling, and Journal of Turbulence. David Stern, of the Yale... (10:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 6 July 2025
- Exchange rate profiteering and cost-effectiveness of physics journals - 2004 Update - :: Dana Roth presented the following to the PAM Physics Roundtable at SLA in Nashville in June, 2004: Exchange rate profiteering and cost-effectiveness of physics journals US$ subscribers are paying significant 'surcharges' for European journals, when US$ prices are compared... (09:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 30 June 2025
- Experimental Mechanics Added to Highwire Press - Experimental Mechanics (EM), the outstanding flagship research journal of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, has just been added to the HighWire Press publishing service. Although EM is available on Ingenta , it is a very limited backfile. Backfile digitization and... (14:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- IoP Announces New Conference Journal - :: Institute of Physics Publishing has launched a new journal to cover timely publication of high quality, international conferences. No word on when the first issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series, will appear later this year.... (11:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 28 June 2025
- Nucleic Acids Research Moves to Open Access Model - :: Oxford U Press has announced that Nucleic Acids Research will move to an open-access model:Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 14 June 2025
- Periodicals Price Survey 2004, Johns Hopkins Reviews Elsevier Titles, ASCE Online Research Library, STS Conference Info - :: There is a lot of information moving at lightspeed through various listservs this morning:Library Journal has published its 2004 periodicals price survey. Johns Hopkins has joined in the movement towards downsizing Elsevier collections. The latest edition of its newsletter... (11:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 May 2025
- Electrochemical Journals, AIP's Scitation, Cost-Effectiveness - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: Nearly 40 years ago, in my first library job, I overheard The Electrochemical Society (ECS) disparaged as a 'Neanderthal' society, which might explain the initial popularity of the commercially published Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (JEC), Electrochimica Acta (ECA) and... (16:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 26 May 2025
- When A Journal Ceases Publication - Commentary by George Porter - What happens when a journal ceases to produce new issues? In the print environment, at least from the librarian/academician standpoint, the answer was perfectly clear -- no new issues arrived, but all received issues remain available until a collection management/space... (11:20 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 21 May 2025
- Educating Patrons Re: Access Violations - :: Alice Trussel, Director of the Fielder Engineering Library at Kansas State U, posted a fascinating e-mail on ELDNET-L today, regarding the fallout from a patron committing an access violation (aka systematic downloading) on an ASCE journal last week.We had... (15:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 May 2025
- Cites & Incites and The Open Access Debate - :: The v4 n7 June 2004 issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Incites: Crawford at Large, is worth a look (for that matter, so is every issue, but I digress...) Walt provides coverage and analysis of the continuing debate on... (10:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 6 May 2025
- Annals of Botany Backfiles Now Available - :: George advises that the Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity established to promote plant science worldwide, has opened their fulltext for free access, following a... (08:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 4 May 2025
- American Physical Society Announces a Price Decrease for 2005! - :: Proving that the unthinkable is still possible, the American Physical Society (APS), in a letter to "The Library Community", has announced it will decrease prices for all tiers of its journals:The Council of the APS has established journal prices... (12:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Friday 16 April 2025
- Compositio Mathematica moves to new publisher; cuts price 1/3 - :: Gerard van der Geer provides wonderful background on the history of Compositio Mathematica (CM) in an Opinion piece in the May 2004 issue of Notices of the AMS.van der Geer, Gerard. We can make a change. Notices of the... (15:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 6 April 2025
- IEEE Scores First Amendment Victory for Scholarly Publishing - :: From the IEEE website:5 April 2004 -- IEEE scored a victory for freedom of the press and the scholarly publishing community with the ruling it received Friday from the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).... (09:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 April 2025
- Scientific Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement - :: Interesting piece from the 26 March 2025 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. As reported earlier, the Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science was announced on 16 March 2004. The Chronicle's take is that the DC... (18:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 1 April 2025
- Cancellation of Elsevier Packages at Cornell, MIT, Harvard, etc. - Commentaries - :: On 23 March 2004, I posted the following e-mail to four listservs (ELDNET-L, SLA-ENG, PAMNET, and STS-L):"Hello everyone, and please excuse the xposting. This is a query about the impact and/or fallout from the cancellations of Elsevier packages and/or... (12:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Monday 22 March 2026
- Nature's "Access to the Literature" Web Focus - :: Nature has begun a new Web Focus discussion, called "access to the literature: the debate continues":The Internet is profoundly changing how scientists work and publish. New business models are being tested by publishers, including open access, in which the... (10:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 18 March 2026
- STM Publishing Giants Rally Behind EBL - :: This is flying around the Internet: Top STM Publishers Join eBooks Corporation’s New Library Offering. PERTH, Australia Friday, 12 March 2026 Six of the world's principle Science, Technology & Medical publishers announced today that they are participating in the... (12:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 15 March 2026
- Elsevier Announces Scopus - :: Elsevier announced today that Scopus, its "full text-linking abstract and indexing (A&I;) database", is in its final testing and user trials phase. Further details are available in a report from Paula J Hane, Information Today.... (11:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 10 March 2026
- The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition - :: Bob Michaelson notes the following in an e-mail to selected listservs today. I have added a few additional links.From February 2004 E-News for ARL Directors: (these briefings also are posted on the ARL web site at http://www.arl.org/enews/index.html, although the... (13:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 March 2026
- Journal of Algorithms Fallout Getting Noticed, Stanford U Takes Stand Against "Pricey Journals" - :: On December 31, 2003, the editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms resigned, in protest of Elsevier pricing policies. George Porter from CIT posted this message to a number of listservs today:Lance Fortnow (University of Chicago) maintains a computational... (12:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 26 February 2026
- IEEE Distributed Systems Is IEEE's First Free Online Publication - :: From What's New @ IEEE for Libraries, v6 n2 Feb 2004:"This year, IEEE Distributed Systems Online becomes the IEEE's first free Web-based publication. Published by the IEEE Computer Society, the journal is sponsored by IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE... (10:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 24 February 2026
- More on Journal Prices, Open Access - Margaret Landesman, Marriott Library, U Utah, writes that "Price Increases Are Not The Problem", in the Advisor Op-Ed section of the v5 n3, Jan 2004 issue of The Charleston Advisor. Elizabeth D'Antonio-Gan of Denison Memorial Library (U Colorado Health Sciences... (15:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 23 February 2026
- Just Say No to Exploitative Publishers of Science Journals - Christopher Reed, a chemistry professor at UC Riverside, has written a powerful and very convincing editorial about the crisis in for-profit STM publishing. It appears in the 20 Feb 2026 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and it is... (20:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 10 February 2026
- MIT Libraries Declines Three-Year Elsevier and Wiley Renewals - :: Another major library system has joined Cornell University Library in not renewing their subscriptions to Elsevier journals. MIT Libraries has announced it will not renew three-year online and print subscription packages from Wiley InterScience and Elsevier Science. Last year,... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 9 February 2026
- News from IOP - The information below regardings developments to the Institute of Physics' (IOP) Electronic Journals service was received in an e-mail from the IoP.*Electronic Journals Quick Guide* A new step-by-step guide to our Electronic Journals service is now available online. A good... (09:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)