Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - September 14, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (What Is “Publishing” if Even a Library Can Do It?); Elizabeth Moylan (Who owns peer review?); Cameron Neylon (Researchers are not ‘hoodwinked’ victims. All choose to play the publishing game and some can choose to change it); and… Read More
2015 ALPSP Conference – An Update - September 11, 2015
The 2nd day of the ALPSP conference started with Keynote from Kuansan Wang, Director of the Internet service Research Centre, Microsoft Research. This Keynote considered the impact for the publishing and consumption of content, drawing on observations derived from a web scale data set, newly released… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair renews sponsorship for the FutureBook Awards 2015 - September 11, 2015
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that, for the third year in a row, it will be sponsoring one of the key categories at this year's FutureBook Innovation Awards. Launched by the UK's Bookseller Magazine five years ago, the awards celebrate those companies and individuals who… Read More
More than 80,000 geological maps added to Elsevier’s Geofacets platform - September 11, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that select content from some of the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) leading journals is now available in Geofacets. This addition of 80,000 maps will further increase the amount of essential geological information in the database, helping geoscientists make more informed interpretations… Read More
AMS publication MathSciNet now available via EBSCOhost - September 11, 2015
Libraries can now turn to EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to support the needs of those studying mathematical sciences. MathSciNet®, an electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), is now available via the EBSCOhost® platform, offering access to a carefully maintained database of reviews, abstracts and… Read More
WHO-hosted HINARI Program partners with Wolters Kluwer to provide free access to UpToDate to Ebola-affected African countries - September 11, 2015
The World Health Organization (WHO)-hosted HINARI program has announced a partnership with Wolters Kluwer to provide free access to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, to the three countries affected by Ebola (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea) for an initial period of at least one… Read More
