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
Major repository networks agree to collaborate on data exchange, technological development, and metadata - July 17, 2015
Three major regional open access repository networks and aggregators (OpenAire, LA Referencia, and SHARE), along with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Center for Open Science (COS) met in Charlottesville, Virginia, to discuss synergies and potential areas of collaboration on July 9 and 10,… Read More
SAGE launches new OA journal – Journal of International Life Sciences Research - July 17, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has launched the Journal of International Life Sciences Research (JILSR), a new open access (OA) journal dedicated to the rapid publication of high-quality articles in the form of life sciences research and review papers. As a companion to the Journal of International… Read More