CCC’s Get It Now academic solution now available to Spanish academic libraries - September 7, 2016
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that its award-winning academic solution Get It Now will be offered to the libraries of Spanish higher education institutions through the Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos (CEDRO). Get It Now, adopted by… Read More
bioRxiv receives additional financial support - September 7, 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced that its free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support. In the three years since bioRxiv began, biomedical scientists have warmly embraced the sharing of results as preprints prior to formal publication. Submissions to bioRxiv… Read More
Boopsie partners with SOLS to offer mobile solution to member libraries - September 7, 2016
Mobile platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Boopsie has partnered with Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) to offer a mobile solution to member libraries. SOLS members interested in offering users a single convenient access point to their library's resources anytime, anywhere and from any mobile… Read More
Wellcome initiates open access requirements for publishers - September 6, 2016
Wellcome has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. The policy outlines what is required of publishers in order to receive article processing charges (APCs) from the charity. These include uploading articles to PubMed Central (PMC), making… Read More
ARL appoints Catherine Davidson as visiting program officer for scholarly communication initiatives - September 6, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Catherine Davidson as a visiting program officer (VPO) for scholarly communication initiatives from September 2016 through June 2017. Davidson, a 2009–2010 graduate of the ARL Leadership Fellows program, is the associate university librarian (AUL) for collections and research… Read More
Altmetric tracks data from Open Syllabus Project - September 6, 2016
Altmetric has announced that it has begun to track data from the Open Syllabus Project (OSP), which details where individual books are included in the syllabi of over 4,000 academic institutions around the world. For the first time, these unique data are combined with other altmetric… Read More
