ALPSP submits response to BIS Select Committee inquiry on open access publishing - February 11, 2013
The UK's Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) is conducting a Select Committee inquiry into the government's open access (OA) policy. The ALPSP has submitted a response to the inquiry, which closed on February 7, 2013. The inquiry focuses on four main topics. The… Read More
Google to digitise books from Michigan State University Libraries - February 11, 2013
Books from the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries will soon be digitised by Google to become part of the Google Books website. Google Books has digitized millions of titles from university libraries and indexed the contents so users can search across the entire set. MSU's… Read More
SAGE set to publish The Economic and Labour Relations Review journal - February 11, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE and the University of New South Wales have announced an agreement to publish the journal The Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR) from March 2013. The Economic and Labour Relations Review is the official publication of the Centre for Applied Economic Research… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 11, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Why Were PubMed Central and eLife Discussing PeerJ?); Richard Van Noorden (Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications); Anthony Haynes (Scholarly publishing: why not co-operatives?); and Rick Anderson (When Sellers and Buyers Disagree — Edwin Mellen Press… Read More
Elsevier’s Gold Standard launches MEDalternatives, a new comprehensive resource for drug therapy options and costs - February 8, 2013
Elsevier's Gold Standard, a drug information provider, has announced the launch of the MEDalternatives database, a comprehensive resource for drug therapy options designed to give health plans and their members additional drug cost savings options through access to information on alternative therapies. MEDalternatives uses only evidence-based… Read More
French Open Access Works to be indexed in Serials Solutions’ Summon Discovery Service - February 8, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that Le Cléo, le centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (The Centre for Open Electronic Publishing) is working with the company to have their scientific research content indexed in the Summon service. Founded by French research and academic institutions, Le… Read More
