Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 27, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Publicity at eLife — Are Media Embargoes Part of the Plan?); Stephen Barr (How should academic libraries communicate their own value?); Stevan Harnad (Urgent Need to Revise the New RCUK Open Access Policy); and David Glance (The long… Read More
US Dept. of Justice refutes objections raised over e-book pricing deal - August 24, 2012
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said that arguments made by various organisations objecting to the final judgment reached between the government and Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster over e-book price fixing charges raise no real new issues. The DoJ has therefore asked that… Read More
Elsevier launches third global CodeForScience competition - August 24, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier has launched its third global CodeForScience (CFS) competition in collaboration with The National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU). CodeForScience is a global series of application development competitions for scientists, researchers and developers. CFS Singapore is… Read More
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journals join OUP - August 24, 2012
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene has announced that two of its journals will join the Oxford University Press (OUP) collection in a new partnership announced between the organisations. The journals, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and International… Read More
SAGE set to publish two journals of the Australian Council for Educational Research - August 24, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has announced a new agreement to publish its two journals - The Australian Journal of Education and The Australian Journal of Career Development - from April 2013. The Australian Journal of Education claims to… Read More
Registrations now open for ARL-ACRL Human Resources symposium - August 24, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with the Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is hosting a Human Resources Symposium. The event is scheduled for November 15–16, 2012, in Washington, DC. Registration for… Read More
