Showing posts with label Professional publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professional publishing. Show all posts
Monday, May 15, 2017

Moody's to Buy Amsterdam based publisher Bureau Van Dijk (BVD) for $3.3Billion

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From Reuters: Credit ratings agency Moody's Corp ( MCO.N ) said on Monday it would buy Dutch financial information provider Bureau ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

White House Sponsored DataJam Promotes Open Data Initiatives

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There is a lot of machine-readable data coming from the federal government, as a result of the Obama Administration’s open-data initiatives....
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to History

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It is hard not to find the humor in this announcement from the American Historical Association which in a recent policy statement suggests ...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Presentation at NFAIS Conference on 2013 Predictions

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Nfais 2013 from Michael Cairns Presentation to NFAIS Annual Conference, February 25th, 2013 Thank you for inviting me. Slide 1: Man...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Pearson Reports Financial Results

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From their press release: Pearson accelerates global education strategy: Restructuring and investment in digital, services and emerging ma...
Friday, February 15, 2013

FASTR and Slower?: Proposed Open Access Bill

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Yesterday the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) bill was introduced in Congress by U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Off The Cuff: What are the important issues facing publishing?

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At a soiree the other day someone (not in the industry) asked me the above question, so with martini in hand I threw off the following: ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Economist Profiles Springer's Digitization Efforts

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The Economist takes a look at how Springer has approached the digitization of their entire backlist/archive of books. They already provide ...