Five new publishers to participate in the CLOCKSS digital preservation archive - February 20, 2014
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with eLife to preserve their ejournal in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a "trigger event"… Read More
Kaplan University selects Vital Source e-textbook solution to support online learning programs - February 20, 2014
Ingram Content Group has announced that Kaplan University, a leader in higher education innovation, has selected Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram's leading e-textbook solution and its VitalSource Bookshelf® platform to support the University's online learning programs nationwide. Using the VitalSource Bookshelf platform, students and faculty… Read More
Cornell University Emerging Markets Institute selects Reprints Desk to provide document delivery retrieval services - February 20, 2014
Reprints Desk, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), has been selected to provide document delivery retrieval services for a newly launched research portal from Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Reprints Desk's services will be… Read More
Biometrics Institute and Elsevier announce strategic partnership for delivery of the Biometrics 2014 Conference & Exhibition - February 19, 2014
The Biometrics Institute, the independent and international impartial body for the biometrics sector, has announced a strategic partnership with STM publisher Elsevier for the delivery of the Biometrics 2014 Conference & Exhibition to be held October 21-23, 2014 in London. The… Read More
QScience to use Rubriq’s standardised, independent peer review tool - February 19, 2014
Open access publisher Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation has announced that it will partner with Rubriq, complementing its own peer review process for its journals on QScience.com with the latter's groundbreaking scorecard, a standardised, independent peer review tool developed to speed publication and improve trust in the peer… Read More
Conflict and Health editors invite authors to submit papers for special series on health systems in FCAS - February 19, 2014
The Editors of Conflict and Health, a BioMed Central publication, in collaboration with the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems on Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS), are inviting authors to submit papers presenting research articles, case studies, methodologies and reviews on health systems in FCAS. … Read More
