Winners of New England Publishing Collaboration Awards announced - November 16, 2015
The New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards, which honour excellence in publishing collaboration, were held on November 10, 2015. Judges selected three winners, and an additional Audience Choice winner was selected by online voting at the event. The judging panel included Amy Brand, Director, The… Read More
Harold Varmus appointed Chairman of F1000 International Advisory Board - November 16, 2015
F1000, the innovative biomedical publishing group, has strengthened its world- leading faculty of researchers in biology and medicine with the appointment of Nobel Laureate and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus as the Chairman of its International Advisory Board. Harold Varmus, who… Read More
SPARC, Higher Education groups support Lingua Editors, Open Access - November 16, 2015
Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s practices. The Lingua editors argued that the journal’s price has steadily increased year after year, far outpacing the cost… Read More
National Diversity in Libraries Conference 2016 calls for presentation proposals - November 16, 2015
The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC ’16), cosponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), will take place on the UCLA campus August 10–13, 2016. The NDLC ’16 Program Committee is inviting presentation proposals that address… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 16, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources); Danielle Padula and Catherine Williams (Applied Altmetrics: How university presses, academic publishing services and institutional repositories benefit.); Donald Barclay (Academic print books are dying. What’s the future?);… Read More
Taylor & Francis and EIFL announce first OA agreement - November 13, 2015
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) have announced a twelve month agreement which will enable researchers in countries with developing or transition economies to publish Open Access (OA) at a substantially reduced rate, or completely free of any article publishing… Read More
