Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 25, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Thomas Wagenknecht (Unhelpful, caustic and slow: the academic community should rethink the way publications are reviewed); Joseph Esposito (Counting the Holes in the Swiss Cheese: "Read and Publish" Discovers America); Victoriano Colodrón (Why open access publishing is growing in Latin… Read More
Springer launches new platform to promote interdisciplinary research - June 22, 2018
Springer has launched the Polar Platform, a unique platform dedicated to research in polar sciences. The platform aims at developing a comprehensive collection of books, open access publications, journal articles and reference works published as part of Springer's polar sciences programme. It also features interviews with… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry renews partnership with Kudos - June 22, 2018
Kudos, the award-winning service for managing dissemination of research publications, has announced a partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry, which publishes 44 journals across both core chemical sciences and related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine… Read More
Ex Libris Esploro research services platform now available to all Esploro development partners - June 22, 2018
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Ex Libris Esploro™ research services platform will now be available to all Esploro development partners. The first release of Esploro represents an important phase in the development of a unified research platform that will lead to broader… Read More
LIBER welcomes library compromises, but TDM exception needs to go further - June 22, 2018
The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) has consistently fought for copyright reforms which support research and innovation in Europe. The report adopted by European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on proposed changes to the Commission's Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive includes draft… Read More
University of Bristol selects OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to manage collections - June 22, 2018
The University of Bristol has selected OCLC Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to help manage their print monographs as they transform their library space. Ranked as one of the top 50 universities in the world, the University of Bristol holds approximately 1… Read More
