Library Copyright Alliance submits comments on copyright reform to Commerce Department - January 13, 2014
On January 8, the Library Copyright Alliance submitted additional comments on the US Department of Commerce "green paper," Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (PDF), following a public meeting held by the Commerce Department in December. The post-meeting comments focus on four issues:… Read More
Neil Spooner appointed Senior Editor of Bioanalysis - January 13, 2014
International journal Bioanalysis has announced the appointment of Neil Spooner (GlaxoSmithKline, UK) as a Senior Editor. He replaces Howard Hill (Huntingdon Life Sciences, UK) who is retiring after 5 years' highly valued service. Dr Spooner joins US-based Senior Editor Brian Booth (US FDA, MD, USA). … Read More
De Gruyter announces reorganisation of its imprints - January 13, 2014
Academic publishing house De Gruyter has announced the reorganisation of its imprints following the successful integration of Akademie and Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. As of January 2014, all titles in the fields of history, economics, computer science, and German-language engineering will be published under the 'De Gruyter Oldenbourg'… Read More
Portico and Knowledge Unlatched announce preservation agreement - January 13, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced an agreement with Knowledge Unlatched to preserve the latter’s Pilot Collection of Open Access e-books in the Portico Archive. The Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection includes 28 new books from 13 recognised scholarly publishers: Amsterdam University Press, Bloomsbury Academic, Brill,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 13, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (When Paid Scientific Articles Were Legally Considered “Advertisements”); Sarah Callaghan (Data Citation and Sharing: What’s in it for me?); David Crotty (Indirect Economic Impacts of Public Access Policies for Journals); and Steve Caplan (Why we are not ready… Read More
Holiday Notice - January 13, 2014
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 14, 2014 on account of a Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January 13th issue. Read More
