DeepDyve selects Reprints Desk to expand access to full-text articles - April 8, 2013
Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced a collaboration with DeepDyve Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles. With this agreement, the companies seek to expand access to full-text articles for registered DeepDyve.com users by supplementing DeepDyve's existing article rental… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 8, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (PubMed Central Reduces Publisher Traffic, Study Shows); Kane Hsieh (Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?); Evolution News and Views (Will Open-Access Publishing Break the Darwinist Stranglehold?); Kent Anderson (The Lens We Look Through — Are… Read More
ASM Press chooses Scope for enhanced metadata for its books - April 5, 2013
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, recently completed an engagement to help enhance book content discoverability for ASM Press, the book publishing division of the American Society for Microbiology. The engagement involved the creation of two types of… Read More
Australasian universities welcome Springer Book Archives - April 5, 2013
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will offer online access to 100,000 eBooks with historic content through its Springer Book Archives (SBA), available anywhere, at any time, via SpringerLink by the end of 2013. As early adopters, Australasian universities were some… Read More
NPG set to launch Scientific Data to aid scientists publish and reuse research data - April 5, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the Spring 2014 launch of Scientific Data. Open for submissions this autumn, Scientific Data is a new open-access, online-only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. Scientific Data will initially focus on experimental datasets… Read More
SPARC-sponsored report on Strategies for Sustaining Open Access Resources released - April 5, 2013
Knowledge Exchange has released 'The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources,' the third report in its multiphase 'Sustainability of Open Access Resources' initiative. Knowledge Exchange is a cooperative effort that includes Finland's CSC (IT Center for Science), Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Joint Information… Read More
