Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 22, 2009
The Fifth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Liz Wager (If comment is cheap why is peer review so expensive?); Ryan Paul (Wikipedians to vote on Creative Commons license adoption); Nicole Harris (Where is the I in Open Content?); Christian Zimmermann (Tips for authors to improve their RePEc… Read More
PEER draft report on manuscript deposit procedures now online - April 21, 2009
The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) recently published a draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers. The report is now available online at http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/. PEER, a joint initiative of publishers, repositories and the… Read More
Thomson Reuters and APS Healthcare to manage New York State’s Medicaid clinical best practice review programme - April 21, 2009
Specialty healthcare solutions provider APS Healthcare and business information company Thomson Reuters, US, have been selected by the New York State Department of Health to manage the state's Medicaid clinical best practice utilisation review programme. The programme examines how Medicaid patients utilise medical services and explores… Read More
SPARC holds webcast for Oberlin Group on Harvard OA policy - April 21, 2009
The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that it recently hosted a webcast for Oberlin Group liberal arts colleges about Harvard University's open access (OA) policy. A number of Oberlin Group colleges are in various stages of discussing faculty OA policies similar to… Read More
Anaheim University set to become the world’s first paperless university - April 21, 2009
Anaheim University, a US-based institution which pioneered online education in the mid-nineties, has now committed to being paperless by 2010. This directive has caused Anaheim to push publishers to produce e-books, as well as adopt technical innovations such as the Sony book reader that allow the… Read More
Two Springer plant science journals included in 100 most influential journals - April 21, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany has announced that two Springer plant science journals - Journal of Plant Research and Plant Ecology - have been included in the 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last 100 years. The journals were described by the SLA as 'important to the… Read More
