Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty votes for open access policy - June 19, 2009
At its latest meeting, the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) voted for allowing the university to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publicly available online. The resolution makes HGSE the fourth of Harvard's 10 schools to endorse open access to faculty research… Read More
Springer expands agreement with Portico - June 19, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that STM publisher Springer, Germany, has expanded its agreement with the digital preservation service. The company has named Portico as a mechanism for perpetual access (also known as post-cancellation access) for its more than 800 titles preserved… Read More
Guide to Google Book Search amended agreement released - June 19, 2009
The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have announced the release of 'A Guide for the Perplexed Part II: The Amended Google-Michigan Agreement.' The guide… Read More
Nature honored as ‘journal of the century’ - June 19, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced that its leading weekly scientific journal, Nature, has been named 'journal of the century' by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division (DBIO) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). The award was presented at the annual DBIO Business Luncheon… Read More
Dartmouth College Library launches open beta for the Summon Service - June 19, 2009
Dartmouth College Library has launched an open beta of the Summon web-scale discovery service, a Google-like search of the full breadth of content found in library collections. In addition to librarians, the Summon service is now being used by students and faculty at Dartmouth College, enabling them to search the… Read More
Ingram Content Group announces new organisation structure - June 19, 2009
David "Skip" Prichard, President and CEO of the recently formed Ingram Content Group Inc., has announced a new organisational structure designed to make it easier to do business with the new company. Ingram Content Group was recently created to fully integrate Ingram's content companies, which include Ingram Book Group, Lightning… Read More
