Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 31, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Katie Shamash (The impact of article processing charges on libraries and what is being done to help); Alice Meadows (Mind the (Pay) Gap); Dylan Parker (Impact in Action: Understanding open access content usage as it occurs); Carl Straumsheim (Doubts about… Read More
EBSCO Health and McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit partner to expand evidence-based healthcare - October 27, 2016
EBSCO Health has announced a partnership with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to ensure that healthcare professionals can make decisions based on the best available evidence. The partnership brings together two of the most established services that provide systematic literature surveillance to improve the effectiveness… Read More
CABI’s first open access book tackles global health - October 27, 2016
Scientific publisher CABI, has published its first open access book - Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa. Written by Gemma Aellah, Tracey Chantler and P. Wenzel Geissler, this book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas… Read More
Brill appoints Marti Huetink as Publishing Director of the History program - October 27, 2016
Academic publisher Brill has announced the appointment of Marti Huetink, Publishing Director of the History program, effective November 1, 2016. As Publishing Director of the History program at Brill, Huetink will begin coordinating all business development activities of the company in the area of Digital Humanities.… Read More
Ex Libris becomes first global library vendor to establish data center in China - October 27, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced the opening of an Ex Libris data center in Beijing, the fifth such center established by Ex Libris worldwide. The decision to set up a Chinese data center results from the rapid growth in the number of Ex Libris… Read More
UCL Press becomes first UK publisher to provide OA monographs on the JSTOR platform - October 27, 2016
UCL Press has become the first UK publisher to provide open access monographs on the JSTOR platform. UCL Press books are amongst an initial set of open access books available from four leading publishers, which also includes university presses University of California Press, University of… Read More
