IMLS, Sloan Foundation jointly award ARL $1 million grant to develop and launch SHARE Notification Service - March 31, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Notification Service. SHARE is a collaborative initiative… Read More
Health and Social Care Information Centre and BMJ Informatica sign agreement for GP software - March 31, 2014
Health and Social Care Information Centre ('HSCIC'), the national provider of information, data and IT systems for health and social care, has signed an agreement with BMJ Informatica to provide its patient check-in, online appointments and clinical decision support services through the… Read More
NetAdvance and OCLC to add metadata from JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat - March 31, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and NetAdvance are working together to add metadata from the JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive online catalogue of library resources, increasing discovery and access to these rich… Read More
Annual Reviews launches new journal – Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior - March 31, 2014
Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has announced the launch of a new journal - Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. The purpose of this journal is to provide distinctive reviews across the range of topics in industrial and organisational… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 31, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (CC-BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy); Bonnie Swoger (Post publication peer-review: Everything changes, and everything stays the same); Char Miller (Open Access as Undergraduate Pedagogy | Backtalk); Limor Peer (Mind the gap in data reuse: Sharing data is necessary… Read More
Scopus launches Cited References Expansion Program for archival content - March 28, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus has launched its Cited References Expansion Program to include cited references in its database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. In addition to increasing the depth of Scopus' scholarly content, including cited references for pre-1996 content will… Read More
