Open-access platform Libre set for October launch, academics invited to publish papers and solicit reviews - July 15, 2013
Three academics are set to launch a new open-access platform that they hope will allow researchers to wrest control of peer review from journals and remove academic publishers' justification for charging high prices for their titles. The Libre platform, slated for launch in October, will host open reviews of… Read More
Three new publishers participate in the CLOCKSS digital preservation archive - July 15, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of the Philosophy Documentation Center; Reveal Digital; and the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care. CLOCKSS will preserve their collections in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around… Read More
Registrations now open for ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses 2013 - July 15, 2013
Registration is now open for the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at four ARL member libraries through 2013. Dates are being finalised for course offerings at seven additional ARL libraries in 2014. ARL and… Read More
Emerald announces winners of 17th Annual Citation of Excellence Awards - July 15, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their seventeenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. These include Harvard… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 15, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Michael Clarke (Why the Apple Ebook Ruling is a Loss for Publishers, Authors, and Readers); Joe Wikert (Why are you surprised by Amazon's pricing fluctuations?); Samuel Moore (Academics: Ask not what Open Access can do for you, but what it… Read More
Ukrainian research institutions to benefit from broader access to Elsevier content and solutions - July 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its cooperation with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science in order to provide access to Elsevier's scientific databases for sixty Ukrainian research institutions. A Declaration of Intent for Cooperation has been signed by the Ministry of Education and Science… Read More
