Springer celebrates open access milestone - July 22, 2014
STM publisher Springer is celebrating the milestone of 200,000 open access articles published to date. The articles, published across BioMed Central, and SpringerOpen are freely available and published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Springer now has 417 open access journals publishing across all areas… Read More
Elsevier Conference Global Food Security honoured at 2014 UK Conference Award ceremony - July 22, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that for the second year running an Elsevier Conference was honoured at the prestigious UK Conference Awards ceremony held annually in London. Elsevier was awarded 'Mark of Excellence' in the Best New Product category for its 1st International Conference on… Read More
Library, Higher Education organisations file net neutrality comments with FCC - July 21, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), together with 10 other library and higher education groups, filed comments with the FCC on net neutrality. These comments largely expand on the points made in the Net Neutrality Principles jointly filed by library and higher education groups on July… Read More
ProQuest introduces new interface for reports in 360 Counter - July 17, 2014
ProQuest has introduced a new interface for reports in 360 Counter. As of June 23, current 360 Counter customers were able to access the new interface for e-resource usage reporting, based on the Intota Assessment platform. Over the next six months, customers will have access to… Read More
Libraries and archives leave international copyright discussions empty handed after countries fail to reach agreement again - July 15, 2014
Discussions regarding an international copyright instrument for libraries and archives again collapsed inconclusively at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, from June30 – July 4. In the early hours of July 5, Member States finally 'agreed to… Read More
Thomson Reuters names the Netherlands as winner of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge - July 15, 2014
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has named the Netherlands as the winner of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge, a unique competition utilising indicators from InCites, the industry's leading research analytics platform, to measure the global impact of the scientific research… Read More
