Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 4, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (The New Face of the Professional Society); Fedor Karmanov (The future of academic publishing); Kent Anderson (An Argument That OA Is Better for Non-Profit Societies Demonstrates Just the Opposite); and Martin Eve (Open Library of Humanities: a community-grounded… Read More
Elsevier and NWO announce collaboration with 5 year access agreement to Reviewer Finder and Scopus - February 1, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), have announced their collaboration with a 5 year access agreement to Elsevier's Reviewer Finder and Scopus, which will further improve NWO’s assessment process of research grant applications. As a leading research funding council in… Read More
Serials Solutions to index SciELO e-book collection in Summon discovery service - February 1, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to index its e-book collection in the Summon discovery service. SciELO's objective is to maximize the use, visibility, accessibility and impact of the work of Latin American scholars. With… Read More
EBSCO Publishing releases new e-book subscription collection for public libraries - February 1, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released its latest e-book subscription collection focused on the needs of public library patrons. eBook Public Library Collection includes over 25,000 general reference e-book titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish new OA journal Conservation Physiology - February 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of Conservation Physiology, an open access journal, edited by a team of experts headed up by Steven Cooke, from Carleton University, Canada. The journal is published on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) which… Read More
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery joins BioMed Central - February 1, 2013
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, the official publication of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has published its first articles following transfer to open access publisher BioMed Central. The journal publishes original research, reviews, commentaries and short reports on all aspects and… Read More
