OASPA issues call for contributions for 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - April 11, 2017
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, will hold the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) at the Altis Grand Hotel on September 20- 21, 2017. Now established as a key event in the scholarly publishing calendar, COASP brings together the open access… Read More
More than 200 titles now available from KU Select 2016 - April 11, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, has unlatched over 200 titles from the recently-funded KU Select 2016 collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences e-books. This brings the total number of unlatched books from all KU collections… Read More
ASTM International and AATCC partner through technical standards offering - April 11, 2017
ASTM International and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) have announced that they will bring together textiles standards and other offerings in one online platform. This will help people and companies gain access to high-quality tools and resources… Read More
Three Southern Nevada Libraries to implement Ex Libris’ Alma and Primo solutions - April 11, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), along with the College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College, has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery platform. The… Read More
OCLC Research and Ithaka S+R join forces on new research project – University Futures; Library Futures - April 11, 2017
OCLC Research and Ithaka S+R have announced a new project - University Futures; Library Futures. Both organisations are joining forces to carry out a collaborative project on the future of academic libraries, in the context of changes in the higher education landscape.… Read More
The Annual Review of Public Health is now freely available to read, reuse, and share - April 10, 2017
Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2017 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health, which is currently online, is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BYSA) license. This influential content is now freely available to read, reuse, and share. Additionally,… Read More