Clarification - April 4, 2008
With reference to the news alert titled "APPI, EMpact deal to promote scholarly information and education efforts" covered in the News Section of Knowledgespeak (dated 20, March 2008), publisher APPI has clarified that the nature of this agreement is such that Empact is proactively selling APPI journals in these areas.… Read More
Rapid growth in OA publishing witnessed during first quarter of 2008 - April 3, 2008
The first quarter of 2008 has reportedly seen dramatic growth of Open access (OA) publishing, as measured by the number of titles in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). There has been a net growth of 271 titles in DOAJ in the first quarter. This is an average of… Read More
Irish Universities Association announce participation in the Portico archive - April 3, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that seven universities under the Irish Universities Association (IUA) have begun participation in the Portico archive. The IUA libraries join more than 400 libraries from 11 countries in supporting Portico and digital preservation. Established in 1997, the… Read More
RSC Prospect offers structure searching within articles, links to patent data - April 3, 2008
Non-profit publisher RSC Publishing has announced that structure searching within journal articles and links to patent information are two of the new features now available with RSC Prospect enhanced HTML journal articles. Linking together related articles by subject ontologies and identified compounds, RSC Prospect enhanced HTML… Read More
ARL releases preprint article – Managing Copyright for NIH Public Access - April 3, 2008
In a preprint article published online by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Duke University Scholarly Communications Officer Kevin L. Smith offers pragmatic strategies that authors and their institutions can use to manage authors' copyrights to fulfill the requirements of the new National Institutes of Health… Read More
Ovid adds new features and functionality to OvidSP - April 3, 2008
US-based information research solutions provider Ovid Technologies, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced the latest release of its industry-leading precision search and discovery platform, OvidSP. All OvidSP customers will now have access to the latest release. Launched in October 2007, OvidSP streamlines the information search… Read More
