Palgrave Pivot celebrates first anniversary by making 100 titles free to download for 100 hours - October 28, 2013
Palgrave Pivot, the mid-length digital-first research format from Palgrave Macmillan, is celebrating its first anniversary by making 100 Palgrave Pivots free to download for 100 hours. Publishing across the humanities, the social sciences and business, Palgrave Pivot offers an innovative new way to publish academic research.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 28, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roxanne Missingham (The death of the academic book and the path to Open Access); Richard Price (Peer review needs to expand so that more scientists are reviewing papers); Ernesto Priego (Hard Evidence: is open access working?); and Social Sciences (Top-down… Read More
ACS Publications announces large-scale digitisation and open availability of data coupled to ACS Legacy Archives Journals - October 25, 2013
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the completion of a comprehensive undertaking to digitally convert and conserve the Supporting Information for its broadly subscribed ACS Legacy Archives journals collection. This initiative was part of the Society's commitment to broaden the online… Read More
Thomson Reuters and SciELO collaborate to showcase emerging research centers within Web of Knowledge - October 25, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to integrate the SciELO Citation Index into the Web of Knowledge, a powerful search and discovery platform. The announcement was made at SciELO 15, a conference of… Read More
Elsevier adds OA journal Annals of Medicine and Surgery to its medical journal portfolio - October 25, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has added Annals of Medicine and Surgery (AMS), an online-only, open access journal devoted to physicians and surgeons in training, to its medical journal portfolio. AMS publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles, as well as review articles, commentaries, quality improvement projects, case reports, and… Read More
More than 2,500 technology titles now available on the ebrary platform - October 25, 2013
ebrary, a ProQuest business, is now offering more than 2,500 titles for perpetual purchase from O'Reilly Media, Microsoft Press, and several publishers distributed by O'Reilly Media including Maker Media, Rocky Nook, Rosenfeld Media, JIST, TIDBits and XML Press. Offering topics such as programming, open source software,… Read More
