Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles - November 24, 2014
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy is expected to be initiated by January 2017. Until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals… Read More
CERN launches Open Data Portal, makes first data of LHC experiments public - November 24, 2014
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will… Read More
IPA and The London Book Fair announce third edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies conference - November 20, 2014
The International Publishers Association (IPA) and The London Book Fair (LBF) have announced that the third edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies will take place on April 16, 2015, in association with The Publishers Association. The World… Read More
RLUK and OCLC expand partnership for shared collection management and visibility goals - November 17, 2014
OCLC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of research organisations in the UK and Ireland, have announced an expanded partnership that will help RLUK achieve key strategic objectives for shared collection management and resource discovery. Building on existing OCLC cataloguing arrangements,… Read More
The American Journal of Medicine launches Hepatitis C Resource Center - November 17, 2014
The American Journal of Medicine (AJM) has announced the availability of an original, comprehensive, online Hepatitis C Resource Center dedicated to providing primary care providers and specialists with the latest information on the screening, diagnosis, treatment and management of Hepatitis C (HCV). AJM is published by… Read More
CrossRef and DataCite announce new initiative to accelerate adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation - November 11, 2014
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, and DataCite, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data, have announced a new initiative to accelerate the adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation. Data are essential building… Read More
