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Hindawi, STM publisher, embraces ePub standard for technical materials

Friday, January 16th, 2009

By Paul Biba

Hindawi_Logo.jpg Technical books are often a significant challenge to a publisher when it wants to publish them in e-book form. That’s why it is such good news when a respected technical publisher is able to use the new ePub format for its books.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a commercial publisher of STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) literature. Founded in 1997, Hindawi currently employs more than 250 people, and publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed journals. In February 2007, Hindawi announced its full conversion to Open Access, making it the only publisher with fully developed Open Access journals spanning such a wide range of subjects in science, technology, and medicine.

Hindawi has just announced that it will now be using ePub on all its Open Access publications.

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