NISO members elect new leadership for 2016-2017 term - June 23, 2016
Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have selected their board's leadership for the 2016-2017 term, which will begin on July 1, 2016. B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., becomes Chair; and Chris Shillum, Vice President Product Management, Platform and Data Integration at… Read More
EDP Sciences reports strong performance in 2016 Impact Factor results - June 23, 2016
STM publisher EDP Sciences has reported a strong performance in the recently announced 2015 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) Thomson Reuters, 2016. EDP has 20 journals indexed of which over half showed an increase in their impact factor, and 45 percent reported an increase of over… Read More
Ex Libris and Copyright Licensing Agency collaborate to facilitate distribution of digitised content to students - June 23, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, and the UK's Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) have announced their collaboration on the Digital Content Store Content URL API. The collaboration will facilitate the integration of the Digital Content Store (DCS) with the Ex Libris Alma® resource… Read More
Apple to begin paying $400 million to consumers in price-fixing settlement - June 22, 2016
Beginning June 21, 2016, millions of e-book purchasers will receive credits and checks for twice their losses following an antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple Inc. and five of the nation’s largest publishing companies for their roles in an alleged e-book price-fixing scheme, according to Hagens Berman,… Read More
SAGE Publishing unveils open access journal Chronic Stress - June 22, 2016
Academic publishing SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of Chronic Stress, an open access journal dedicated to the science of stress with a particular emphasis on the effects of long-term stress. The journal also covers stress-related psychiatric disorders such as mood, anxiety, trauma, and more. … Read More
Taylor & Francis and the Mycological Society of America announce new publishing partnership - June 22, 2016
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and the Mycological Society of America have announced a new publishing partnership for the journal, Mycologia. Mycologia, the official journal of the Society, publishes papers on all aspects of mycology, including physiology and biochemistry, ecology, pathology, development and morphology,… Read More
