New open access policy for all MIT authors - April 10, 2017
The MIT is launching a new way for authors of scholarly articles to legally hold onto rights to reuse and post their articles, and for others to more easily build on that work. As of this month, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can… Read More
HighWire and Hypothesis partner to integrate annotation across publications - April 10, 2017
HighWire Press and Hypothesis have announced a partnership which adds open annotation capability to over 3,000 journals, books, reference works, and proceedings published on HighWire's JCore platform. Publishers on HighWire's JCore platform can implement and control their own annotation layers, moderated, branded, and visible across… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center seeks proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support projects - April 10, 2017
The Advanced Collaborative Support Program (ACS), a scholarly service at the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis, is offering non-consumptive access to the entire HathiTrust collection. HTRC seeks proposals in three categories… Read More
IOS Press celebrates 30th Anniversary - April 10, 2017
STM publisher IOS Press is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. Friends and colleagues came together on April 4, 2017, for a mini-symposium in Amsterdam venue De Balie to commemorate this special event. The rest of the week was filled with social events and meetings with… Read More
RedLink and INASP announce new partnership - April 10, 2017
RedLink, RedLink Network, and INASP have announced the initial steps of a developing partnership designed to help make usage tools and credentials management available for INASP members. As a first step, the Zimbabwe University Librarians Consortium (ZULC) will… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 10, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Charlie Rapple (Updated Figures on the Scale and Nature of Researchers’ Use of Scholarly Collaboration Networks); Patrick Dunleavy (Citations are more than merely assigning credit - their inclusion (or not) conditions how colleagues regard and evaluate your work); ProQuest Blog… Read More
