Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - March 3, 2017
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a landmark meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Foundations (OSF) that aimed to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available. The participants… Read More
Major educational content providers and distributors join forces to fight counterfeit textbooks - March 2, 2017
Academic publishers Cengage, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg, Inc. to have them adopt and implement a set of Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices designed to address… Read More
New Scholastica white paper proposes democratized OA academic journal publishing to solve serials crisis - March 2, 2017
Scholastica, a peer review and open access (OA) publishing platform for academic journals, has announced 'Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access,' a new white paper on the state of academic journal publishing. The paper proposes an upending of the corporate publisher paradigm to make… Read More
Research institutions in the US, France and Germany top second annual Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions - March 2, 2017
The US Department of Health and Human Services, France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Germany's Fraunhofer Society top the Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology. The… Read More
Arizona Universities Library Consortium opts for Ex Libris Alma, Primo and bX solutions - March 2, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Arizona Universities Library Consortium (AULC) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service, along with the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery platform and bX® scholarly recommender service, to make scholarly resources more readily available to… Read More
Future Science Group unveils online knowledge hub for infectious diseases - March 2, 2017
Future Science Group (FSG) has announced the launch of their new resource, Infectious Diseases Hub (ID Hub) – the new home of medical microbiology information. ID Hub, powered by FSG Connect, is a new online knowledge hub providing up-to-date, essential research and information on key aspects… Read More
