Elsevier announces seven new plastics and polymers books at SPE ANTEC 2016 - May 23, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of new, fully updated editions of Fatigue and Tribological Properties of Plastics and Elastomers and Multilayer Flexible Packaging. Reflecting the rapid advances made in the field, these two highly anticipated books, along with five additional new plastics and polymers… Read More
OASPA webinar panelists discuss attribution - May 23, 2016
Cameron Neylon from Curtin University, Michael Carroll from American University, and Ernesto Priego from the City University London recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss attribution in open access publishing - an important, timely issue for publishers that goes hand-in-hand with licensing. Catriona MacCallum (PLOS)… Read More
University of Deusto Library becomes the first in Spain to select Ex Libris Alma - May 19, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Deusto will be replacing its AMICUS library management system with Ex Libris Alma® and will migrate from an on-premises discovery system to a SaaS implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Students,… Read More
Avestia Publishing to preserve e-Journals with Portico - May 18, 2016
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Avestia Publishing will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available in the future. Avestia Publishing is a fast growing academic publication platform. All Avestia publications adopt an open access model, are peer-reviewed, and… Read More
Exact Editions to preserve e-journals with Portico - May 17, 2016
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Exact Editions will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. Exact Editions turns books and periodicals into dynamic, user friendly digital editions with extensive archives. They specialise in making content… Read More
The Society for Scholarly Publishing and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination to “write the book” on the future of scholarly publishing in 72 hour sprint - May 17, 2016
Arizona State University's (ASU) Center for Science and the Imagination is bringing together a team of science fiction authors, scholars, digital publishers, journalists, and technologists to write a book on the fly in 72 hours at the 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing… Read More
