British Library urges reform as government’s copyright consultation closes - March 26, 2012
The British Library, the national library of the UK, in its evidence to the Intellectual Property Office’s Copyright Consultation which closed on March 21, 2012, has said that changes to the copyright system would benefit UK innovation. Its submission is seen to make the case for… Read More
The Society for General Microbiology to preserve ejournals with the CLOCKSS Archive - March 26, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the Society for General Microbiology to preserve their ejournals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, the Society for General Microbiology has committed… Read More
Ingram Content Group announces licensing agreement with EPAC Technologies, expands Lightning Source operations - March 26, 2012
Ingram Content Group, US, has announced a licensing agreement with EPAC Technologies Inc. and the acquisition of assets of two EPAC print facilities in the US plus a technology development and support group in Germany to expand its Lightning Source worldwide print-on-demand operation. Through the licensing… Read More
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH collaborates with the New England Research Institutes to launch e-Source - March 26, 2012
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health has announced a collaboration with the New England Research Institutes to create a free resource called e-Source. The web-based interactive anthology will provide psychologists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists and other scientists with… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 26, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (The Problems With Calling Comments “Post-Publication Peer-Review”); Michael Eisen (Op-Ed: How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress); David Payne (Changes to scholarly articles); Stevan Harnad (Estimating the True Costs of Gold Open Access Publishing); and Rick Anderson (The Portal… Read More
Elsevier and ExitCare announce collaboration - March 23, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an expanded collaboration with ExitCare, LLC, an enterprise-wide solution for patient education. ExitCare’s content already provides Elsevier customers with access to an expansive library of patient education information available in multiple languages, including the recent addition of ExitCare’s patient… Read More
