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Information Today
November 6, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp...   |
Information Today
April 2002
Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
Information Today
December 2002
Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
Information Today
November 4, 2002
Richard Poynder |
Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million. |
Information Today
March 5, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Rich Smith |
Publishers Dueling for No. 1 The Thomson Corporation and publishing competitor Reed Elsevier, jockey for the title of worldwide uber-publisher. |
Information Today
November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
Information Today
March 15, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. |
Information Today
May 27, 2003
Richard Poynder |
BertelsmannSpringer Is Sold to Private Equity Firms German media and entertainment company Bertelsmann has announced the sale of its academic publishing group BertelsmannSpringer to the European private equity firms Candover and Cinven. |
Information Today
November 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
Information Today
September 3, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2005
Rich Smith |
Europe Is Different Apparently, the fact that publisher Reed Elsevier is both growing, and growing more profitable, at slower rates than its Canadian nemesis does not matter as much to the Europeans as the fact that Reed Elsevier is growing at all. |
Information Today
May 27, 2010
Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier (Finally) Divests U.S. Trade Pubs: Facts and Fallout for Information Professionals When Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell off its trade press unit, Reed Business Information, no one dreamed it would take more than 2 years to finalize or that the process would end up being so messy. |
Information Today
November 29, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Announces New Pharma Research Tool The Thomson Corp. is using the Online Information exhibition in London for the official launch of its new integrated research tool for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today
November 19, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Reed Elsevier's CEO Quits After 8 Months Ian Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis. |
Information Today
February 25, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today
August 13, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson to Acquire NewsEdge In yet another strong sign of consolidation in the information industry, Thomson Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the NewsEdge Corp. for approximately $43 million... |
Information Today
January 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
Information Today
September 2004
Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
Elsevier Enhances ScienceDirect Elsevier, the STM publisher, announced that it has added several new features to ScienceDirect in its latest release. |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Information Today
March 2004 |
NewsBytes Thomson Delphion Enhances European Patent Data Analysis... Ingenta, EBSCO Launch Subscription Initiative... EBSCO Celebrates 60 Years of Business... etc. |
Information Today
March 2001
Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Information Today
September 25, 2000
Barbara Quint |
Thomson's Gale Group Acquires K.G. Saur from Reed Elsevier Thomson continues its empire-building with another acquisition. This time Thomson's Gale Group has purchased K.G. Saur, the prominent German publisher of biographical and other scholarly reference books, from Reed Elsevier... |
Information Today
October 7, 2002 |
News Digest CrossRef Launches Version 2.0, Expands Membership... Infotrieve Signs Two STM Aggregators, 10 Publishers... EBSCO Increases Links to JSTOR, Adds Access to Elsevier Content |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Searcher
December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
Information Today
December 11, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Science Previews New Web-Based Science Search Engine Elsevier Science has announced that it's developing a Web search engine for scientific information that will search both free and proprietary (access-controlled) content... |
Information Today
Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today
April 3, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Elsevier Launches Drug Tracking Tool... EBSCO's NoveList Adds NextReads E-Mail Service... Thomson Gale Teams Up with Experian to Provide BizInfo Online... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today
July 23, 2007 |
Houghton Mifflin to Acquire Harcourt Divisions from Reed Elsevier The sale represents the completion of Reed Elsevier's plan, which it announced in February, to sell off its entire Harcourt Education division. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Barbara Quint |
New Dialog E-journal Feature Links Database Citations to Full-Text Article Images Dialog Corp. has become the first of the traditional commercial online services to offer users full linking from citations appearing in abstract/index databases to electronic versions of the journals... |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
Information Today
April 15, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
Elsevier Acquires Mendeley For some industry onlookers, the news that Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early April came as no surprise. But the initial rumors in late December/early January about the possible sale shook the foundations of the research community. |
D-Lib
January 2004
Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
Information Today
December 8, 2003
Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
Information Today
April 11, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Ovid Adds Social Policy Database... Thomson Gale Launches Economic Literature Collection... Amazon Acquires Print-on-Demand Company... |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Information Today
December 14, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Springer Sold to Private Equity Firms EQT and GIC The German company is the world's second-largest scientific, technical, and medical publisher after Reed Elsevier and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Kluwer Academic Publishers and Bertelsmann Springer. |
Information Today
September 2, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Elsevier and ACS Agree to Link... ebrary Launches Library Center... ALA and Others Request Public Input on Homeland Security Procedures... |
Information Today
August 15, 2013 |
Elsevier Acquires Woodhead Publishing Titles Woodhead's book program is designed to enhance Elsevier's publications portfolio, offering quality content to researchers to improve productivity. |
D-Lib
October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
