OA survey findings on the evolving role of the librarian towards OA business model in scholarly publishing - July 3, 2012
Open Access publisher InTech, Croatia, has published the results of a survey appraising attitudes and awareness of the library community towards the Open Access (OA) business model in scholarly publishing. 211 librarians participated in the survey with 156 completing all questions. The majority of respondents were… Read More
RSC Publishing reports continued growth in impact factor journals - July 3, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio once again improved its Impact Factors following publication of the 2011 results. Last year the RSC published four times as many articles as it did in 2006 meaning a rise in quantity has gone hand… Read More
Cambridge University Press waives author charges for new OA mathematics journals - July 3, 2012
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), UK, has announced the launch of two new open access (OA) journals in mathematics - Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. Cambridge has established the Forum of Mathematics to offer OA journals to… Read More
Transfer launches new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service - July 3, 2012
Transfer, the UKSG-sponsored initiative to create a Code of Practice to follow when journals are transferred between publishers, has announced the release of its Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS). ETAS is a rapid alerting service that will allow publishers involved in a journal transfer to… Read More
Knowledgespeak Exclusive - July 3, 2012
An interview with Ziyad Marar(Twitter: @ZiyadMarar), Global Publishing Director, SAGE Read More
Holiday Notice - July 3, 2012
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 4, 2012, on account of the ‘Independence Day’ holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, July 05, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 3rd… Read More
