CrossRef and California Digital Library in deal to extend discoverability of scholarly publications - August 7, 2014
CrossRef and the California Digital Library (CDL) have signed an agreement that opens a route for library publishers to participate in the scholarly communications hub created by CrossRef. Through the agreement, publishers using CDL's EZID digital identifier service may now choose to… Read More
Six months post launch, 80 percent of UK library services sign up to Access to Research - August 7, 2014
Ten million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, are now included in the Access to Research initiative. Since launching earlier this year, the Access to Research initiative has grown quickly to include the majority of local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales. This means… Read More
Association of American Publishers welcomes DOE’s plan to expand public access to federally funded research - August 5, 2014
The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its plan to implement public access to research funded by the agency, in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive. This plan will be implemented for grants awarded after October 1, 2014 and… Read More
Library Copyright Alliance files amici brief in Authors Guild v. Google - August 4, 2014
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) - the American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) – recently filed an amici brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Authors Guild v. Google in… Read More
World’s leading ICT standards organisations collaborate on emerging technologies - July 29, 2014
The 18th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), a senior-level gathering of the world's leading information and communication technologies (ICT) standards organisations, took place on July 22 – 23, 2014, hosted by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) in Sophia Antipolis, France. GSC enhances co-operation… Read More
TISP launches policy recommendations: the first operational guidelines to boost innovation in book publishing and ICT - July 29, 2014
The TISP network (Technology Innovation for Smart Publishing), the European project coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association which gathers 25 organisations from 12 European countries, has released a set of policy recommendations, giving the publishing and technology sectors a common base at European level to foster… Read More
