France will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017 - June 18, 2015
Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Anne Tallineau, Deputy Executive Director of the Institut français and Interim Executive President, signed, in the presence of Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, and of Olaf Scholz, Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany in… Read More
COAPI welcomes wave of institutional OA policies - June 17, 2015
As evidence of the continued importance of open access in contemporary research culture, several prominent colleges and universities have recently adopted open access policies or resolutions, maximising the reach and impact of their faculty's scholarship: Pennsylvania State University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, University… Read More
ARL publishes issue brief on the US Copyright Office’s Report on Orphan Works - June 15, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published an issue brief on the US Copyright Office's June 4, 2015, Report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization, which includes recommendations for legislation on orphan works - copyrighted works whose owners are impossible to identify or contact -… Read More
JHUP awarded grant to develop ‘MUSE Open’ - June 9, 2015
Johns Hopkins University Press has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.… Read More
Registrations now open for 2015 Charleston Library Conference - June 3, 2015
The Charleston Library Conference has announced that registration is now open for the 2015 event. This annual conference on issues in book and serial acquisition will again be held in Charleston, SC, with headquarters at the Francis Marion Hotel. Sessions will also be held at… Read More
British Library Chief Executive Roly Keating elected President of CENL - June 1, 2015
British Library Chief Executive, Roly Keating, has been elected President of the Conference of European National Libraries (CENL) at their recent meeting in Switzerland for a period of three years. Founded in 1987, CENL aims to develop and support the role of national libraries in… Read More
