NISO, NFAIS publish Recommended Practices for Supplemental Journal Article Materials - February 5, 2013
The US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have published a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials (NISO RP-15-2013). Supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal articles, but until now… Read More
UC Libraries unveils fund pilot for open access publishing - February 4, 2013
The UC Libraries has announced new campus-based open access (OA) fund pilots to support UC faculty members who wish to make their research findings immediately and freely available to the public. Funded in part by the California Digital Library (CDL), these new OA funds will help… Read More
Sara Lloyd to Chair 2013 LBF Digital Minds Conference - January 31, 2013
The London Book Fair, in association with the Publishers Association, has announced that Sara Lloyd, Director of Digital and Communications at Pan Macmillan, will chair the fifth Digital Minds Conference scheduled for April 14, 2013, at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster. Digital… Read More
JISC funds facilitates open access to 6,500 digitised museum objects - January 30, 2013
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that it has funded a project to make 6,500 newly digitised objects from University College London and the University of Reading's diverse museum collections openly accessible to students, teachers and the public at large. The objects include… Read More
Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan to join SCOAP3 - January 29, 2013
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has announced that the Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan has expressed its interest in joining the SCOAP3 consortium, representing the contribution of Taiwan. With this new participation, the SCOAP3 partnership now includes hundreds… Read More
Science investment plans need to be supported by long-term research funding: RSC head - January 28, 2013
The Chief Executive of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Dr. Robert Parker, has said that David Willetts' announcement on the government's spending plans for capital investment in science is good news for the chemical sciences. However, he has called for a long-term increase in… Read More
