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
EBSCO and ALA award seven scholarships for librarians to attend 2013 ALA Annual Meeting - April 5, 2013
EBSCO, in co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, to be held from June 27– July 2, 2013. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on… Read More
Northwestern University Libraries select Ex Libris Alma - April 5, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Northwestern University has selected the Ex Libris Alma next-generation resource management solution for its libraries. A member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of American Universities, Northwestern counts among its libraries the… Read More
OUP journals compliant with RCUK and Wellcome Trust open access policies - April 5, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that from April 1, 2013 Oxford journals will be compliant with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust policies on open access (OA). OUP claims to be mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research.… Read More
