Russian academy makes deal with US company on journals

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The Russian Academy of Sciences has signed contracts giving Pleiades Publishing and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) the right to publish some of the Academy's many journals. Pleiades, a subsidiary of General Media Inc (GMI), concluded an agreement in Sep 1992 under which it will take over publication and distribution of the Academy's journals. GMI will also improve the Academy's publishing equipment and put out Russian and English versions of some journals. AIP will take over six of the Academy's journals and two from other institutes.

Publishing industry, International aspects, Contracts, Russia, Penthouse Media Group Inc., Scientific societies, Science organizations, Science publishing, American Institute of Physics

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Nature in 2003

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Nature Publishing Group will open an office in Boston, Massachusetts, and will change its policy on copyright. Effective retroactively, authors will retain copyright to articles printed in Nature and its sister journals. Authors will thus be able to reprint their own papers, post them on their own not-for-profit web sites, and use them for teaching purposes.

United Kingdom, Management dynamics, Periodical Publishers, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Patents & copyrights, Copyright Programs, Editorial, Management, Periodicals, Copyright, Copyrights, Intellectual property, Company business management, Patents, Patent/copyright issue, Nature (Periodical)

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Publishers go head-to-head over search tool

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The head-to-head competition in creating online search engines for searching scientific literature between Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of science is explained. The search engines will help scientists search the literature.

Netherlands, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Services introduction, New Products/Services, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Company service introduction, Service introduction, Internet/Web search services, Search engines, Internet search software, Internet/Web search service, Reed Elsevier N.V., Text search and retrieval software, Thomson Corp. Thomson ISI

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