Research reveals sharp rise in the number of students using social media to stay in touch with tutors at college and university - February 27, 2015
Research has revealed a sharp rise in the number of students using social media to stay in touch with tutors at college and university, with 40 percent of students now using social as their primary means of communication with lecturers. Facebook is the most popular form of communication, followed… Read More
Registrations now open for COAR-SPARC Conference 2015 - February 26, 2015
Registration is now open for the COAR-SPARC Conference 2015, "Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship," to be held in Porto, Portugal, April 15–16. Co-hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories… Read More
Allen Press announces 42 percent increase in the number of journals hosted on the Pinnacle Online Publishing platform - February 26, 2015
Allen Press, Inc., has announced that over the past twelve months, the number of journals hosted on its Pinnacle Online Publishing platform has increased by 42 percent. The platform will now host 184 publications on 117 publisher websites. This growth also includes 23 publishers previously hosting… Read More
Elsevier launches SciVal Trends, a new module within SciVal - February 26, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of SciVal Trends, a new module within SciVal, Elsevier's tool to analyse and benchmark the world of research, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of tools and services. The Trends module builds on SciVal's existing flexibility… Read More
Brill selects CCC to manage APCs for four new OA journals - February 25, 2015
Scholarly publisher Brill has chosen the RightsLink for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its recently launched, international Open Access journals: Brill Open Biology, Brill… Read More
Greater Western Library Alliance announces preferred purchasing agreement with Reprints Desk, Inc. - February 25, 2015
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) has announced a preferred purchasing agreement with Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company. GWLA members will receive preferred purchasing terms for single-article document delivery services. The agreement, which supplements interlibrary loan (ILL) and provides same-day… Read More
