Safari Books Online announces significant enhancements to its services - October 17, 2008
Safari Books Online, a US-based e-reference joint venture between publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has announced significant enhancements to its services. The latest version of Safari includes the availability of full book downloads within Safari's library and gives companies the ability to instantaneously… Read More
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PEER initiative to examine effects of systematic archiving - October 16, 2008
Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), an initiative supported by the European Union (EU), has announced that it will investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility and… Read More
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association launched - October 16, 2008
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, was officially launched in conjunction with an OA Day celebration hosted by the Wellcome Trust in London. OASPA seeks to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.… Read More
BMJ completes 10 years of offering open access content online - October 16, 2008
British Medical Journal (BMJ), published by medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that after 10 years of providing free access to its peer reviewed research online, it is now officially an open access (OA) journal. The announcement was made on the first international Open Access… Read More
Elsevier’s online resource for drug safety data adds EMEA documents - October 16, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its online resource for authoritative drug safety data, PharmaPendium, has expanded its content offering with a new release containing the European Medicines Agency's (EMEA) European Public Assessment Reports (EPARs). The addition of this content makes PharmaPendium the only source… Read More
