PA
conducting Survey of Rights Income
Publishers Association, May 2005
The Publishers Association is conducting a survey of rights income.
Bertelsmann
profits held back by music deal
Media Guardian, May 3
Bertelsmann, the world's fourth largest media group, has posted a 6%
increase in first quarter profits to £23m, a figure kept down by the cost of
restructuring its record label joint venture, Sony BMG.
Oxford Journals announces
Oxford Open
Press Release, May 4
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), has
announced its latest Open Access (OA) project, Oxford Open. Commencing July 2005.
it will offer an optional author-pays model to authors of accepted papers in a range of
Oxford Journals titles.
Adobe
acquires Macromedia in all-stock transaction
Let's Go Digital, May 6
Adobe Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an
all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. The combination of Adobe and
Macromedia will provide customers a more powerful set of solutions for creating, managing
and delivering compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems,
devices and media.
OUP
widens open access trial
Guardian unlimited, May 6
The drive to make scientific, medical and academic research more freely available on
the internet got a shot in the arm yesterday as Oxford University Press widened its trial
of open access publishing.
Separately, the Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC, an advisory body, announced
a deal with the British and Irish Legal Information Institute to produce Open Law, an
online repository of about 200 of the most cited judgements in core areas of the law
syllabus.
Mozilla expands in Europe
Press Release, May 9
Mozilla announce expansion of their non-profit international
affiliate in Europe as world-wide Firefox downloads surpass 50 million. Established in
January 2004 by long-time Mozilla contributors from several European countries, Mozilla
Europe aims to promote, develop and contribute to the Mozilla open source software
project. Mozilla Europe is based in Paris, France.
Context becomes Justis
Company announcement, May 9
Context Limited has become Justis
Publishing Limited. This change is as a result of customer feedback about the
company name and their flagship service, Justis.com. Justis Publishing Ltd is an
independent publisher of electronic legal information and provider of publishing software
and services.
Thomson Announces
Firm360 for Legal Business Development
Information Today, May 9
The legal market group within The Thomson Corp. has announced a new service designed to
give law firms key market and competitive intelligence to aid their business development
efforts. Firm360 (http://www.firm360.com)
is a Web-based application that combines customisable content aggregated from across
Thomson (including Thomson Financial, Thomson Gale, NewsRoom from Dialog, and Westlaw)
with tools to streamline client development tasks.
Interoute launches
extranet for print, publishing sector
Digital Media Europe, May 9
European voice and data network operator Interoute has
launched the Interoute Media Xchange (IMX), an extranet designed for the print and
publishing sector to streamline the supply of digital information.
Mozilla releases Firefox security update
SC Magazine
The Mozilla Foundation has released a security update
for Firefox that fixes critical vulnerabilities reported earlier in the open-source
browser.
The London Development Agency, the Mayor of London's
agency for business and jobs, has awarded the British Library £1 million to transform its
Business & Intellectual Property Centre from a successful pilot project to a permanent
resource.
 British Library services for business
Wiley to acquire Sybex
Wiley Press Release, 11 May
John Wiley &
Sons, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Sybex Inc., a
publisher of computer books and software based in Alameda, California. The terms of the
purchase, which is scheduled to close by the end of the month, were not disclosed.
Sybex has been a leading publisher for the global Information Technology
professional community for nearly 30 years. Known for high quality publications that are
translated into more than 20 languages, Sybex publishes about 100 new titles a year and
has a backlist of approximately 450 titles in the graphics, digital photography, operating
systems, programming, and gaming categories
Train
operators to fit WiFi at stations
Computing, May 11
Train operators are to install wireless hotspots in 85 stations across
south-west England so travellers can access the internet while waiting for their trains.
Windows Mobile 5.0 Unveiled By
Microsoft
Digital Lifestyles, 12 May
Microsoft has unveiled Windows Mobile 5.0, a new version of its Windows
operating system for mobile devices.
Guinness World
Records could be for sale
Sunday Times, 15 May
Guinness World Records, which features some of the
globe’s strangest achievers, could be about to change hands for more than £40m.
Free UK online health portal
planned
e-health-insider, 17 May
The Wellcome Trust and the US National Library of Medicine are intending
to set up a UK-based version of the free open-access online health research directory
PubMed Central.
Unlike conventional pay-for-access print and online journals, PubMed
Central is freely available, with funding coming from researchers paying to have their
papers included.
Yell dials up deal to
buy US peer
BBC News, 17 May
UK telephone directory publisher Yell is buying US peer TransWestern for £829m
($1.58bn) on the back of a surge in full-year profits. The deal means Yell's US operation,
Yellow Book, will be the fifth-largest directory publisher in the US.
United Business Media boss sells a third of
his stake
Print source: Sunday Times, 22 May
Charles Gregson chops more than a third of his
holding to raise just shy of £580,000. He sold 120,000 shares.
Speechmark
Publishing to Move Distribution to NBN International
book2book Forum, 23 May
Speechmark Publishing has announced that it will be distributed by NBN
International from January 2006. Speechmark, which turns over in the region of £2m per
year, is a strong specialist publisher in the fields of speech therapy, healthcare,
special needs and education, and has hitherto been self-distributed
MSN Unveils Plans for Local Maps,
Search, Ads
ClickZ Network, 24 May
Microsoft's MSN has laid out plans for competing with Google and Yahoo!
in the local space, demonstrating a satellite mapping application and describing a local
search service. Both will debut in beta this summer with locally targeted ads from partner
Yahoo! Search Marketing.
International medical
journals amplify call for registration of drug trials
Public Health News, 24 May
Editors of 11 international medical journals have repeated their call to
register clinical drug trials in a public registry. In a joint editorial, the members of
the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), said they will consider
publishing results of clinical trials that begin enrolment on or after July 1, 2005, only
if the trial has been entered in a registry that is electronically searchable and publicly
accessible at no charge before the first patient is enrolled.
Publishers lay into
Google Print
CNET News.com, 25 May
Leading academic publishers have accused Google of
copyright violation on an unprecedented scale.
Reed
Elsevier makes an offer to acquire MediMedia
Medimedia Statement, 26 May
Reed Elsevier announced that it has made an offer, subject to
certain conditions, to Santemedia Group Holding ("Santemedia") to acquire
MediMedia's Medical Academic Publishing activities in France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and the
UK.
Reed
Elsevier makes an offer to acquire MediMedia
Reed Elsevier Statement, 26 May
Reed Elsevier announced that it had made a binding offer to acquire
MediMedia's European and US Netter professional medical publishing businesses (MediMedia
MAP) for $270 million in cash, subject to the necessary regulatory clearances.
Reed buys medical
publishing businesses
International Herald Tribune, 27 May
Reed Elsevier has acquired a French medical publishing company,
MediMedia, for around EUR270 million. The MediMedia businesses had revenues of EUR101
million last year. The units publish books and journals through the Masson, Netter and
Doyma imprints.
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