UK’s scientific legacy in the Royal Society’s new digital archive - December 12, 2017
The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences, is making over 330 years' worth of high-quality, full colour images from its journals available online. The content, which includes annotations, illustrations, and additional material between 1665 and 1996, has so far only been available to people… Read More
EDP Sciences and Couperin.org sign 5-year open access deal - December 12, 2017
EDP Sciences and Couperin.org, the national consortium for academics in France, have signed a significant 5-year open access deal. Through this deal, all authors from French institutions participating in the agreement, including world leading research centers, universities and engineering schools will now be able to choose… Read More
Invitation to Tender: Citation Capture for Unique and Distinctive Collections - December 12, 2017
Research Libraries UK, The National Archives and Jisc will be working together to commission a significant piece of research into the use and presentation of unique and distinctive collections in academic publications as recorded through citations. Unique and distinctive collections (UDCs)… Read More
ALCTS releases 2018 ALCTS Fundamentals Web Courses schedule - December 12, 2017
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced the release of the 2018 ALCTS Fundamentals Web Courses schedule. Focusing on the fundamentals of acquisitions, cataloguing, collection assessment, collection development and management, electronic resources acquisitions, and preservation, the Fundamentals Web Courses are presented as… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches new content sharing service – Cambridge Core Share - December 11, 2017
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has launched Cambridge Core Share, a new sharing service providing the academic community and wider public with greater access to research. Built with users' in mind, Cambridge Core Share is a new tool that enables authors and readers to easily generate… Read More
De Gruyter set to publish the Scandinavian Journal of Pain - December 11, 2017
Academic publisher De Gruyter and the Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain (SASP) will be cooperating to publish the Scandinavian Journal of Pain (SJPAIN), which has most recently been published by Elsevier. The new cooperation will begin with Volume 18 (2018) which will appear in… Read More
