Scolaris launches new publishing platform at S3UG event - July 5, 2012
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced the launch of Scolaris, the new digital publishing platform for the scholarly and academic publishing. The product launch took place at the S3UG event on June 28, 2012 at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. The event… Read More
De Gruyter announces new eJournal pricing model 2013 - July 5, 2012
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced its new eJournal pricing model 2013. The subscription options now available include: Complete Package STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) including 300 journals, or LLH (Language, Literature, Humanities, Law, Economics) including 247 journals, Complete Package STM English only or LLH English… Read More
ARL joins library groups to support lending rights - July 5, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), who work collectively as the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), to file an amicus curiae brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court of the United States… Read More
Cambridge University Press set to publish Journal of British Studies - July 5, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, has announced that it will publish Journal of British Studies (JBS) on behalf of the North American Conference on British Studies from January 2013. The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the JBS has positioned… Read More
IFLA, other library groups express concern over TPPA stand on copyrights - July 5, 2012
Negotiators from nine countries are meeting on July 2-10 in San Diego to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The TPPA is a multilateral trade agreement between Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore, covering all aspects of commercial relations between the countries. … Read More
Columbia University, Thomson Reuters launch data visualisation project - July 3, 2012
Columbia University and business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, have announced the launch of the Advanced Data Visualization Project (ADVP). The project, based at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), will be sponsored by Thomson Reuters. It is projected to facilitate research into… Read More
