Swets appoints Georges Sarazin as National Sales Manager for Canada - July 22, 2014
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Georges Sarazin as its new National Sales Manager for Canada. Georges joins Swets from Midwest Library Service, where he held the position of Regional Manager, responsible for managing territories in Canada and New England. He has… Read More
SCOAP3 repository now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds - July 21, 2014
The SCOAP3 repository is now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds. The SCOAP3 repository hosts Open Access articles published under the SCOAP3 initiative. It is built on Open Source software and has been recently featured at the Open Repository 2014 conference. The… Read More
Twenty Belgian libraries to add 2 million records to WorldCat - July 21, 2014
Anet, a consortium of 20 Belgian academic and special libraries, including the University of Antwerp and the City of Antwerp Heritage Library, has signed an agreement with OCLC to add some 2 million records to WorldCat. Anet is the first library… Read More
Brill’s 2015 journal prices now available - July 21, 2014
International scholarly publisher Brill has announced that its 2015 Journal Program now consists of 208 titles. The program includes 9 new journals, 1 take-over journal and 2 Editions Rodopi journals, a recent acquisition of Brill. Five of Brill's new 2015 journals are full Open Access. … Read More
Library, Higher Education organisations file net neutrality comments with FCC - July 21, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), together with 10 other library and higher education groups, filed comments with the FCC on net neutrality. These comments largely expand on the points made in the Net Neutrality Principles jointly filed by library and higher education groups on July… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 21, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (The 1% of Scientific Outputs — A Story of Strawmen, Sensationalism, and Scopus); Joe Wikert (Thriving as econtent prices fall); Michael Cook (Corrupting the peer review process); Joseph Esposito (How to Shoot the Moon with D2C Sales); and… Read More
