Pensoft journals, MycoKeys and Nature Conservation, indexed by Scopus - July 30, 2015
Academic publishing company Pensoft has announced that two of its open access journals - MycoKeys and Nature Conservation - are now accepted for indexing by one of the largest abstract and citation databases of peer-reviewed literature Scopus. By joining the vast Scopus family of reputed peer-reviewed… Read More
Deep Web Technologies announces major upgrade to next-generation search technology, Explorit Everywhere! - July 29, 2015
Federated search solutions provider Deep Web Technologies (DWT) has announced a major upgrade to Explorit Everywhere! next-generation search technology. Explorit Everywhere! searches internal, subscription and public Deep Web sources simultaneously for relevant results, helping organisations improve their research efficiency and ultimately driving down research costs. … Read More
Wiley joins list of document suppliers for FIZ AutoDoc´s pay-per-view option - July 29, 2015
Wiley, the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, has announced that it will be available as a new document supplier for FIZ AutoDoc´s pay-per-view option. Thus, articles from nearly 1,600 Wiley journals, hosted on Wiley Online Library, can now… Read More
Ukrainian authors and writers criticise new state open access initiative - July 29, 2015
Ukrainian writers and authors are reportedly on the verge of massive protests, due to a recent initiative of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to conduct digitalisation and online publishing of all of the books and documents stored in the national archives and libraries. According to an official spokesman of… Read More
Figshare and DuraSpace webinar to discuss possibilities for integration between Figshare for Institutions and DuraCloud - July 28, 2015
London-based data repository organisation Figshare and DuraSpace will host a webinar to discuss the possibilities for integration between Figshare for Institutions and DuraCloud. The webinar, scheduled for August 20, from 7pm – 8pm BST, will be presented by Dan Valen, Product Specialist,… Read More
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to bring FASTR Act up for mark-up on July 29 - July 28, 2015
After a month of intense conversations and negotiations, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) will bring the 'Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act' up for mark-up on July 29, 2015. The language that will be considered is an amended version… Read More
