OA advocate Harold Varmus to keynote Open Access Week kick-off event - October 5, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that leading international researchers will champion the importance of Open Access for advancing research at an online event to launch this year's Open Access Week (October 18 - 24, 2010). Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of… Read More
Researchers willing to push search and discovery to the next level, says Elsevier study - October 5, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has released highlights from a new online survey titled 'Future of Search and Discovery'. The survey reveals that researchers around the globe are not only ready for the next phase in search and discovery, but also prepared to actively contribute to making… Read More
ebrary unveils new ‘Patron Driven Acquisition’ e-book model - October 5, 2010
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has collaborated with librarians and publishers to develop a new Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) model. With ebrary's implementation of PDA, libraries may create collections of titles of their choice, provide full access to end-users,… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell’s Biotechnology journals portfolio now available via DeepDyve - October 5, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has launched of a pilot programme to make its portfolio of Biotechnology journals with more than 75,000 articles available through DeepDyve, an online rental service for scientific and scholarly… Read More
Duke joins Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity - October 5, 2010
Duke University has joined a group of leading research institutions in signing a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE). The compact seeks to make it easier for researchers to publish their work in open-access scholarly journals, where it would be freely available online. As part of… Read More
EPiServer launches EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad - October 5, 2010
Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, UK, has launched the EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad. The App, a mobile version of EPiServer OnlineCenter, is designed to give interactive marketers, content publishers and Web developers greater control over their online properties. MobileCenter claims to… Read More
