German Consortium Baden-Wuerttemberg gains access to about 2,500 electronically published journals from Elsevier - July 20, 2015
The Consortium Baden-Wuerttemberg, an alliance of the scientific libraries of the federal state located in the south-west of Germany, has signed an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to provide 52 universities and institutions of higher education with comprehensive access to approximately 2,500 scientific journals. The agreement… Read More
Psychology Dictionary announces new marketing and distribution collaboration with UBM Medica - July 20, 2015
Psychology Dictionary has announced a new marketing and distribution collaboration with UBM Medica, a UBM Life Sciences business. First published online in 2012, PsychologyDictionary.org claims to be the most comprehensive psychology dictionary and psychology reference resource on the Web. UBM Medica… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. set to launch new Transgender Health journal in Fall 2015 - July 20, 2015
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, has announced that Transgender Health, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal launching in Fall 2015, will deliver authoritative research and clinical studies exclusively focused on advancing the understanding of the health and healthcare issues and concerns of this unique patient population.… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education announces upgraded editions of SRA Open Court Reading and SRA FLEX Literacy - July 20, 2015
McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has announced the expansion of two key language arts and reading programs with significantly upgraded editions of SRA Open Court Reading and SRA FLEX Literacy, to enhance the school curriculum for K-12 reading and language arts. McGraw-Hill Education's SRA… Read More
OCUL releases web-based version of the OCUL Accessibly Information Toolkit for Libraries - July 20, 2015
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has released a web-based version of the OCUL Accessibly Information Toolkit for Libraries, previously available only as a PDF. Anyone interested in making Ontario's academic libraries and institutions more inclusive can now more easily browse, search, and consult this… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 20, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Discriminating Between Them); Heidi Laine (The case against the journal article: The age of publisher authority is going, going, gone - and we’ll be just fine); Dalmeet Singh Chawla (How should… Read More