Elsevier announces official collaboration with the National Natural Science Foundation of China - October 21, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its official collaboration with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the central governing body for science and technology funding in China. With an official memorandum of understanding (MoU) in place, Elsevier will undertake… Read More
BioMed Central announces various events to mark 6th year of Open Access Week - October 21, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced various events to mark the 6th year of Open Access Week, which begins today (October 21). Open Access Week is a global event to increase awareness of the benefits of open access publishing, and give people the opportunity to… Read More
New SPIE open access publishing program wins strong participation - October 21, 2013
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that an author-choice open access publishing program for journals, launched earlier this year, is gaining strong participation from authors and increasing the volume of freely accessible, peer-reviewed optics and photonics research literature as a result. … Read More
Swets and Decision Support in Medicine partner to launch a point of care tool featuring 28 specialty programs - October 21, 2013
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, in partnership with Decision Support in Medicine, LLC., has launched Decision Support in Medicine (DSM) – a point of care tool featuring 28 specialty programs designed to zero in on the most pertinent information during patient interactions. According to the… Read More
National Library of New Zealand reduces costs by moving Te Puna Interloan service to OCLC - October 21, 2013
The National Library of New Zealand is working with OCLC to improve interlibrary lending and reduce costs by moving the infrastructure of the national Te Puna Interloan network to the hosted version of OCLC's VDX resource sharing system. OCLC's VDX document delivery and management system… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 21, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Wojick (US Federal Open Access Rulemakings To Come); Abby Olena (Useless Peer Review?); Barbara Fister (Show Your Work | Peer to Peer Review); David Crotty (A New Science Blogging Scandal: Deja Vu All Over Again); and Ernesto Priego (The… Read More