MIT Press collaborates with MIT Open Learning, MIT Technology Review, and Knowledge Futures Group to strengthen its presence at the AAAS meeting - February 25, 2019
The MIT Press collaborated with MIT Open Learning, MIT Technology Review, and the Knowledge Futures Group to amplify the MIT presence at the recently concluded American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC. While MIT is no stranger to… Read More
The London Book Fair announces 2019 seminar line-up - February 25, 2019
The London Book Fair has unveiled its full 2019 programme, spanning seminars, panel debates, awards, author events, live podcasts and much more. From audiobooks to ageism, rights to refugee education, and from feminism to fake news, this year's comprehensive programme at LBF provides insight into… Read More
Frontiers and Hannover Medical School form OA publishing agreement - February 25, 2019
The Hannover Medical School (German: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover /MHH) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Library of the Hannover Medical School supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Hannover Medical… Read More
Atypon acquires Authorea and Manuscripts and signals its plans for open science - February 25, 2019
Atypon has announced its acquisition of two authoring platforms - Authorea and Manuscripts - enabling the company to provide free HTML-first authoring and collaboration tools for researchers. Already used by over 200,000 researchers across the globe, these tools enable researchers to write,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 25, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Stefan de Jong and Reetta Muhonen (Ahead of the Game - How impact is an additional hurdle for scholars from widening countries to receiving EU funding.); Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Is Hybrid a Valid Pathway to Open Access? Publishers Argue Yes,… Read More
British Library partners with ProQuest to give patrons access to reader reviews, author bios, other key search data - February 22, 2019
The British Library is improving the performance of its online catalogue with Syndetics Unbound™, a ProQuest enrichment service that helps libraries create an interactive search experience for their users. With more than 150 million items in its catalogue - including books, magazines,… Read More
