ARL, partners receive grant to study value of academic libraries to students, faculty - January 13, 2010
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), has received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The funding will be used to study the value of… Read More
SAGE expands list of titles offering open access through SAGE Open - January 13, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has extended the list of titles included in its SAGE Open initiative. Ninety SAGE journals will now offer open access through SAGE Open. SAGE Open initiative is a hybrid open access publishing model allowing authors the option to pay… Read More
Portico to preserve OA content from BioMed Central - January 13, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it will preserve BioMed Central's entire collection of 60,000 open access online articles and all newly published articles going forward. With the inclusion of all articles from BioMed Central's 205 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals, including… Read More
CABI Agricultural Collection now available via Credo Reference platform - January 13, 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference, US, has signed an agreement to launch a new Publisher Collection from CABI. A set of CABI’s reference resources will soon be added to the Credo Reference platform. CABI is a non-profit international organisation that provides information to solve problems in… Read More
Mosby holds conference for nursing educators to update tech and curricula - January 13, 2010
Mosby, the medical reference arm of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that its Faculty Development Institute conference, held January 3-5, 2010, brought together nursing educators from across the US with industry leaders. The three-day educational conference sought to address challenges in the nursing industry from a… Read More
Atypon to power next generation informaworld publishing platform - January 13, 2010
Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has selected its software to power the next generation of the informaworld publishing platform. A division of Informa plc, Taylor & Francis Group includes such imprints as CRC Press, Psychology… Read More
