Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea announce new initiative to integrate content within Korean Citation Index into Web of Science - November 25, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), have announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region's scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the… Read More
London Higher and SPARC report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies - November 24, 2014
London Higher and SPARC Europe have commissioned a new report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies. The report 'Counting the Costs of Open Access' highlights the compliance burden associated with the move to open access… 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
Consumer engagement takes centre stage as Publishing for Digital Minds names 2015 conference chairs - November 10, 2014
The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers' Association, has revealed that consumer engagement will be at the top of the agenda for the seventh edition of the Publishing Digital Minds Conference as it announced the chair and deputy chair for… Read More
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing, says NPG/ Palgrave Macmillan survey - November 3, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and its sister company, Palgrave Macmillan, recently conducted a survey, which notes that the open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But most academic research remains behind expensive… Read More
Freedom of Information requests reveal payments to main journal publishers by universities have soared - October 31, 2014
The amount paid by UK universities to subscribe to journals from some large publishers has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2010, new data suggest. The finding is based on freelance requests under the Freedom of Information Act to more than 100 universities by Ben Meghreblian, an independent researcher,… Read More
