Portland Press invites authors to use Creative Commons Attribution licence for papers published in ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports - February 4, 2013
Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has announced that it will invite authors to use the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence for papers published in its two Gold Open Access journals - ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports. This allows authors to… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 4, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (The New Face of the Professional Society); Fedor Karmanov (The future of academic publishing); Kent Anderson (An Argument That OA Is Better for Non-Profit Societies Demonstrates Just the Opposite); and Martin Eve (Open Library of Humanities: a community-grounded… Read More
Elsevier and NWO announce collaboration with 5 year access agreement to Reviewer Finder and Scopus - February 1, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), have announced their collaboration with a 5 year access agreement to Elsevier's Reviewer Finder and Scopus, which will further improve NWO’s assessment process of research grant applications. As a leading research funding council in… Read More
Serials Solutions to index SciELO e-book collection in Summon discovery service - February 1, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to index its e-book collection in the Summon discovery service. SciELO's objective is to maximize the use, visibility, accessibility and impact of the work of Latin American scholars. With… Read More
EBSCO Publishing releases new e-book subscription collection for public libraries - February 1, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released its latest e-book subscription collection focused on the needs of public library patrons. eBook Public Library Collection includes over 25,000 general reference e-book titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish new OA journal Conservation Physiology - February 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of Conservation Physiology, an open access journal, edited by a team of experts headed up by Steven Cooke, from Carleton University, Canada. The journal is published on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) which… Read More
