Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and IOP Publishing announce new pilot agreement to help grow the society’s participation in OA publishing - March 8, 2018
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new pilot agreement to help grow the society's participation in open access publishing. The new Institutional Research Licence has been developed by IOP to enable institutions to manage the cost of hybrid… Read More
Funding for scientific research marks new Canadian federal budget - March 8, 2018
The Canadian federal government recently released its annual budget, including a nearly-$4 billion (US $3.1 billion) increase in funding for science over the next five years. A sizeable amount of the funding will go directly to Canada's three granting councils, a critical recognition on behalf of the government of the… Read More
University of Missouri System and McGraw-Hill Education in deal to expand access to affordable course materials - March 8, 2018
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education and the University of Missouri System have announced a new agreement that will increase student access to affordable course materials, lowering the cost of all McGraw-Hill Education electronic textbooks by an additional 38 percent to meet the University's definition of low… Read More
Danish Medical Association and Cardiff University Press to preserve OA e-journals with Portico - March 8, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Danish Medical Association and the Cardiff University Press will preserve their open access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. The Danish Medical Association is a medical professional association… Read More
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to move flagship journal Environmental Health Perspectives to Atypon’s Literatum online publishing platform - March 8, 2018
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the institutes comprising the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), will move its flagship journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), to Atypon's Literatum online publishing platform. It will be the first US government… Read More
ProQuest Dialog database adds Northern Light database for real-time access to breaking information from life sciences events - March 7, 2018
Pharmaceutical researchers and other users of the ProQuest Dialog® professional search service can now access more than 2.7 million abstracts and posters from medical and life sciences conferences around the world. ProQuest Dialog has announced a partnership with Northern Light, making its… Read More
