Russian Ministry of Education & Science partners with ProQuest to provide Russian researchers with top-notch scholarship via dissertations and theses - September 14, 2016
ProQuest has been chosen by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to support and enhance scholarship by supplying dissertations and theses to 50 Russian institutions. The licensing of ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) follows an exhaustive selection process that began in 2015 after… Read More
University of Mary Washington goes live with Ex Libris Alma and Primo - September 8, 2016
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Mary Washington (UMW) has gone live with the Ex Libris Alma library management service and Primo discovery and delivery solution. In 2015, after using various VTLS library solutions, including Virtua, for more… Read More
NFAIS to host 2016 Humanities Roundtable - September 8, 2016
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global nonprofit membership organisation serving the information services community, will host the NFAIS 2016 Humanities Roundtable on September 23 in Atlanta with virtual participation available from any location. 2016's event, hosted in conjunction with Atlanta's Pitts Theology… Read More
bioRxiv receives additional financial support - September 7, 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced that its free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support. In the three years since bioRxiv began, biomedical scientists have warmly embraced the sharing of results as preprints prior to formal publication. Submissions to bioRxiv… Read More
Wellcome initiates open access requirements for publishers - September 6, 2016
Wellcome has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. The policy outlines what is required of publishers in order to receive article processing charges (APCs) from the charity. These include uploading articles to PubMed Central (PMC), making… Read More
Registrations for 8th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing still open - September 1, 2016
The 8th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), hosted by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), is still open for registrations. The conference will be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway, Virginia, USA, on September 21 and 22. Previously held in Europe, this… Read More
