NFAIS Half-Day Virtual Workshop – Beyond the PDF: Emerging Trends in Next Generation Articles - March 21, 2017
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will be conducting a Half-Day Virtual Workshop, Beyond the PDF: Emerging Trends in Next Generation Articles, on March 23, 2017 from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (EDT). This workshop will benefit scholarly researchers, publishers, discovery service providers, research… Read More
Panelists discuss JATS for Reuse at OASPA webinar - March 21, 2017
Kelly McDougall (MIT Press), Mary Seligy (Canadian Science Publishing), and Stephen Laverick (Maverick) recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss Open Access Publishing in the Global South. Melissa Harrison (eLife) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center hosted the webinar. … Read More
Association of Research Libraries releases ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2014–2015 - March 20, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2014–2015, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 59 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada. In fiscal year 2014–2015, the reporting health… Read More
EBSCO Information Services partners with MOTOR Information Systems to offer AutoMate - March 17, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and MOTOR Information Systems (MOTOR), the world's premier supplier of automotive data for over 100 years, have announced a partnership to offer AutoMate™, a reference database that provides accurate, authoritative and up-to-date auto service and repair information. Powered by the automotive experts… Read More
New SPARC Europe report on Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe - March 17, 2017
SPARC Europe, together with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), has released a report that provides a snapshot of various Open Data and Open Science policies, as they currently stand throughout Europe. The report gives an overview and quick access via live links to the sourced policy… Read More
Evidence-based characteristics could help authors recognize predatory journals - March 16, 2017
A study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine identifies 13 evidence-based characteristics by which potential predatory journals may be distinguished from presumed legitimate ones. The 13 characteristics identified by researchers at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada include an interest in publishing research on… Read More
