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Nature Physics editorial - Elements of style: 3, 581 (2007) doi:10.1038/nphys724

Scientific American's 60 Second Science
... building on the success of Scientific American's daily podcast of the same name, 60 Second Science aims to be comprehensive in its coverage of big stories as well as a curator of the kind of need-to-know information that doesn't show up on other sites until we've reported it first.

arxiv.org's API
The goal of the API is to allow application developers access to all of the arXiv data, search and linking facilities with an easy-to-use programmatic interface.

Portico to preserve Springer titles - KnowledgeSpeak
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with STM publisher Springer, Germany, to preserve 824 titles from the latter’s online journals collection. Additional journals published with partner societies and other third parties will be incorporated into the agreement over time. With this inclusion, over 7,200 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.

Major IT and BPO firms in race for Springer arm - KnowledgeSpeak
Major IT and BPO firms together with private equity players are reportedly in the race for Scientific Publishing Services (SPS). SPS, a leading premedia and typesetting services provider for STM publishers, is majority owned by scientific and specialist information publisher Springer Science + Business Media, Germany. According to sources, the SPS deal is estimated at around $100 million.