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Blackwell Publishing has announced the addition of more than 250 social science and humanities journals to its online research tool, Blackwell Synergy. According to the sales and marketing director at Blackwell Publishing, many of the journals on Synergy now include CrossRef linking to cited articles, JSTOR links to back volumes, and reference links to the ISI database. In addition, several of these journals also have OnlineEarly papers, where peer-reviewed articles are posted online before the print issue is published. Librarians can set up a single platform for all their Blackwell journals in the Library Administrator area of the Synergy site.

The name Blackwell has been synonymous with scholarly publishing since the 19th century, when Benjamin Blackwell opened his first Oxford bookshop. His son Basil subsequently founded Blackwell Publishers and Blackwell [...]

This paper presents an update on partnerships in the information services field as of February 2005. Swets Information Services has partnered with INIST, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of CNRS, the French integrated scientific documentation center. The document delivery services of INIST will be integrated into SwetsWide, the Swets online service for the procurement, access and management of subscriptions and online information. The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and Elsevier has partnered to develop the SLA Online University professional development platform. Elsevier contributed a one-time gift of $60,000 to start up the effort; the gift was matched by SLA funding. SLA Online University is scheduled to appear on the web in late May 2005. It is expected to include more than 200 courses, as well as additional professional development resources. EOS International and WebFeat announced a partnership to supply EOS clients with simplified, simultaneous access to multiple database resources. The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) announced that Blackwell Publishing will handle the production, technical editing and publishing of the association's journals, Ground Water and Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation. NGWA will retain control of the publications.

The article examines the trend in open access (OA) publishing in 2006. During a keynote address at the Internet Librarian International Conference, Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Great Britain asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly. Blackwell Publishing has released a best practices white paper on ethics in scholarly journal publishing. An op-ed piece in the November 1, 2006 issue of Indian newspaper The Hindu provides an overview of the OA movement.