SPARC Europe signs agreement with Driver to jointly promote repositories - July 9, 2008
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe and European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure (Driver) have signed an agreement to work together for promoting repositories. The cooperation is seen to help progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research… Read More
Australian universities join SCOAP3 to promote open access in particle physics research - July 9, 2008
Australia has joined SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), an international consortium that aims to provide free access to major particle physics journals worldwide. Six of the Group of Eight universities in Australia have agreed to participate in the consortium. These include… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces free service to archive on behalf of authors - July 9, 2008
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, is initiating a free service to help authors fulfil funder and institutional mandates. The service, slated for launch later this year, will initially be open to authors publishing original research articles in Nature, the Nature research titles and the… Read More
Collexis Holdings, JISC Collections agreement to help widen access to essential biomedical research in the UK - July 9, 2008
Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical research community in the UK. Under the deal,… Read More
Springer publishes 5,000th volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science - July 9, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the publication of the 5,000th volume in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The series provides scientifically reliable information on computer science in about 200,000 articles. LNCS claims to be one of the world's most authoritative computer science… Read More
Swets launches latest technical update to its SwetsWise portfolio - July 9, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SwetsWise - Release 5.1, the latest technical update to its pioneering SwetsWise portfolio of products and services. Release 5.1 implements a whole host of additional features and functionalities into SwetsWise Subscriptions, the core focus of the… Read More
