National Agricultural Library and ASERL partner to archive 875 research journals - February 13, 2015
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has announced that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has become ASERL's first-ever Program Affiliate. Through this agreement, NAL will partner with ASERL libraries to retain important agriculture-related print journals as part of ASERL's 'Scholars Trust' program, and NAL will… Read More
PeerJ celebrates two-year anniversary of publishing, opens up peer-reviewed article submissions to new journal PeerJ Computer Science - February 13, 2015
Open access journal PeerJ, which began publishing on February 12, 2013, has published 760 articles, and over 1,000 PrePrints across all of the life sciences and medicine, culminating in the work of over 4,000 authors. PeerJ is not only celebrating its two-year anniversary of PeerJ publishing… Read More
NASA public access plan available, uses NIH’s PMC platform - February 13, 2015
NASA has announced its plan for a policy ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from the approximately $3 billion it invests annually in basic and applied research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. NASA has provided a detailed timeline for the… Read More
ARL announces accessibility webinar to foster library-publisher collaboration on inclusive learning resources - February 13, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a free webinar to raise awareness about the value of producing or procuring accessible born-digital resources to support library users of all abilities. The webinar, 'Working Together: Research Libraries and Publishers on the Value of Inclusive Learning Resources,'… Read More
LearnLaunch and Cengage Learning to inspire edtech innovation through expanded partnership in key growth area - February 13, 2015
Cengage Learning, a global education company, will bring LearnLaunch Accelerator, a leading edtech startup program, to Latin America via Cengage Learning's Laboratorio de Innovacion en Experiencias de Aprendizaje (LINNEA). Located in Chihuahua, Mexico, LINNEA is an innovation lab established by Cengage Learning, National Geographic Learning and… Read More
Nature Publishing Group partners with CEGMR, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, to publish npj Genomic Medicine - February 12, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group is partnering with the Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia to publish npj Genomic Medicine. npj Genomic Medicine will be a high quality open access research journal which will publish the most important… Read More
