Threats to copyright protections seen as ‘Existential’, reports Simba Information - February 20, 2019
Copyright protection and the many ways it is perceived to be under threat were a recurring theme to proceedings at the Association of American Publishers annual Professional and Scholarly Publishing conference on February 7, reports market research firm Simba Information. Simba Information covers issues of copyright… Read More
NLM and Wellcome complete partnership to provide free access to historically-significant biomedical journals - February 20, 2019
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome have completed their partnership to make thousands of full back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available through the National Institutes of Health life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC), and through its European counterpart,… Read More
eLife invests in open-source content production tool, Texture - February 18, 2019
eLife has announced its investment in the development of Texture, an open-source toolset for the editing and production of manuscripts, designed to be integrated into publishers’ editorial and content-delivery systems. Originally created by Substance Software GmbH (Substance) as a JavaScript library of tools for web-based… Read More
Gale and EveryLibrary partner to launch nationwide campaign to promote how libraries support entrepreneurship - February 18, 2019
Gale, a Cengage company, has partnered with EveryLibrary, a national non-profit organisation dedicated to non-partisan political action on behalf of libraries, to launch a nationwide campaign to help raise awareness of the services libraries offer to entrepreneurs and startups. The campaign will run throughout the… Read More
Plan S – Physics societies warn of ‘irrecoverable damage’ - February 18, 2019
The European Physical Society (EPS) has warned that a major open-access initiative in Europe could cause ‘irrecoverable damage’ if it is implemented too quickly. In a statement, the EPS says that while it welcomes the proposal – known as Plan S —… Read More
Einstein Healthcare Network to implement Zynx Health solutions for evidence-based optimisation - February 13, 2019
Zynx HealthTM, a market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, has announced that Einstein Healthcare Network, an academic healthcare system serving the communities of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, is implementing Zynx Health solutions across its enterprise. The unified solution will offer a streamlined… Read More
