8 New Korean Society Journals To Join Springer Portfolio

Digital Ebook: Springer, one of the world's leading STM publishers, has signed publishing agreements with eight South Korean scientific societies during the past half year. With this move, Springer will be the publisher of a representative selection of Korean society journals and confirms its long tradition of dedication to publishing the increasing amount of research coming from Asia.

Agreements to start publishing their journals in 2008 were signed with the Korean Society of Civil Engineers, the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Korean Fiber Society, the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers, the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea, the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, the Korean Society of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Microbiological Society of Korea.

Ubuntu and Red Hat Praise IBM as It Joins OpenOffice.org Community

Digital Ebook: [ Thanks to Bill Andad for this link. ]. IBM has announced that it is joining the OpenOffice.org development community, with an initial involvement concerning code contributions it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product.

The code includes accessibility enhancements, and IBM is expected to make ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. As an aside, IBM has also declared that it will leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its own product line. "Since the project's creation by Sun Microsystems in 2000, nearly 100 million have downloaded the product; and thousands contribute to it..."Complete Story - Related Stories: IBM Throws its Active Support Behind OpenOffice.org (At Last)(Sep 10, 2007). IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community.

Interview with Author, Publicist, and Relationship Expert Dorothy Thompson

Digital Ebook: As I can see, Dorothy, you wear many hats. Why don't you start by putting on your publicist hat and telling our readers what a publicist can do for an author that the author cannot do himself?First let me begin by saying that I’m an advocate for learning how to do things yourself.

If I know how to do it and you need to know how to do it, I’ll teach you to do it. For some, it doesn’t come as easy as it does for others. Not saying you aren’t as smart, but maybe you’re just too overwhelmed with editing or are on a deadline and you can’t do everything. That’s when a publicist comes in handy. Because I am an author much like the clients I represent, I have been in their shoes. I know their frustrations and that’s why my approach is very hands on with them.