American Society for Microbiology and UNC Charlotte’s Atkins Library deliver perpetual unlimited access to e-textbooks for authorised users - October 29, 2014
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Press and the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte have announced that they are experimenting with an innovative business model that will deliver affordable e-textbooks to students and faculty. This fall, Atkins Library purchased perpetual access to the… Read More
Springer Healthcare unveils reprintsWarehouse.com for pharmaceutical professionals - October 24, 2014
Springer Healthcare, specialists in delivering innovative medical content and communications solutions, has announced the launch of reprintsWarehouse.com – a responsive platform that enables pharmaceutical professionals to rapidly identify content that supports their product or device marketing activities, from a database of over… Read More
Nature Publishing Group joins OASPA - October 23, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association which represents the interests of open access publishers in all academic disciplines. NPG publishes 73 journals with an open access option, and 38 percent of the research… Read More
Frontiers unveils new OA journal – Frontiers in ICT - October 23, 2014
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in ICT, an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal that brings all specialisms across information and communications technologies together on a single platform. From big data to digital health… Read More
NPG and Palgrave Macmillan make data from Author Insights survey publicly available as part of Open Access Week - October 21, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. The survey, which contains views from 30,466 researchers, is the biggest publisher survey of authors’ views to… Read More
Scientific American launches Spanish-language website - October 16, 2014
Science magazine Scientific American has launched ScientificAmerican.com/espanol, which will provide Spanish-language online readers with authoritative insights and news about the latest developments that matter in science, technology and biomedicine. ScientificAmerican.com/espanol features original reporting, as well as translated… Read More
