current science group becomes science

Current Science Group becomes Science Navigation Group

Current Science Group -- the parent company of open access publisher

BioMed Central -- has changed its name to Science Navigation Group,

effective from 1st January 2006.

The name change comes in the wake of the recent sale of Current

Medicine Group to Springer Science+Business Media, a transaction that

saw Springer also acquire the name Current Science.

Explains Science Navigation Group's Grace Baynes: "One of the

companies sold to Springer was called Current Science Inc. Since we

were planning to re-brand the Current Science Group we did not require

Springer to change the name of the company they acquired." She adds

"The new name Science Navigation Group more accurately reflects the

mix of businesses we are now involved in."

As the company's press release explains, the independent companies

that make up the Group have "increasingly moved into navigation, and

Science Navigation Group reflects that the Group's businesses are both

science and navigation focused."

In addition to BioMed Central (which currently publishes 140 open

access journals) other companies in the Science Navigation Group

include the life sciences journal The Scientist; Biology Reports,

which publishes a literature evaluation service called Faculty of 1000

Biology; Medicine Reports, which publishes an online literature

evaluation service called Faculty of 1000 Medicine; and Current

BioData, which creates scientific databases for the pharmaceutical

research community.

Indeed, the list of businesses in Science Navigation Group provides an

interesting insight into where Vitek Tracz, who owns the companies,

sees future investment opportunities in the science and technology

publishing and information services space.

There are, for instance, also companies like Telmap, a technology and

software provider in the mobile mapping arena, and Mapa Internet, a

supplier of location-based services, and navigation and telematic

applications for the web and mobile platforms; and there are companies

like UK DataPoint, a UK events database company, and Mapa Mapping and

Publishing, a publisher of maps, atlases, and travel, food and leisure

guides for Israel.

Finally, there is Peoples Archive, an online collection of

autobiographical videos of great thinkers and creators.

Science Navigation Group has its head office in London (UK), with

additional offices in Philadelphia, Chicago, Geneva, Amsterdam, Oslo

and Tel Aviv.

posted by Richard Poynder at 13:53

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