Innovative open access agreement between Springer and Jisc to benefit UK researchers - October 23, 2015
Researchers in the UK will now be able to publish their articles open access in over 1,600 Springer hybrid journals without cost barriers or administrative barriers. The Springer Compact agreement is a pilot that combines open access publishing and subscription access in one annual fee and… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education launches Case Files Collection on AccessMedicine - October 23, 2015
McGraw-Hill Education, the learning science company, has announced the launch of the Case Files® Collection on AccessMedicine®. This is the latest addition to the McGraw-Hill Education suite of comprehensive online resources for medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals. Featuring the complete range of the popular Case… Read More
NWO and Brill join forces in research on handwriting and image recognition - October 23, 2015
A consortium of computer scientists, historians of science and heritage professionals has been awarded funding by NWO for a research project on making illustrated handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives was submitted jointly by the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS), Naturalis Biodiversity… Read More
Cengage Learning to highlight expanded institutional offerings at EDUCAUSE 2015 - October 23, 2015
Cengage Learning will be highlighting its expanded institutional offerings at EDUCAUSE 2015 in Indianapolis, including the company's student-centric mobile products and the recent acquisition of the education technology company Learning Objects. This year's theme—Recharge with Cengage Learning—focuses on best practices in implementing education technology and… Read More
Future Medicinal Chemistry releases themed issue on the growing role of academia in drug discovery - October 23, 2015
Future Medicinal Chemistry, a MEDLINE-indexed journal published by Future Science Group, has released a themed issue dedicated to providing coverage of the presentations that took place at the 2015 Academic Drug Discovery Conference (Cambridge, UK), organised by SelectBio. The themed issue, which… Read More
EBSCO partners with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks - October 22, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has partnered with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague, a Czech university publisher, to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks™. The first of a few collections to be made available in EBSCO eBooks is from the Varia edition series… Read More
