SPIE Digital Library now available to high schools, two-year colleges at no or low cost - November 25, 2014
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that it is making access to the complete SPIE Digital Library available to high schools for free and two-year colleges at a subsidised price. According to SPIE Director of Publications Eric Pepper, the new program… Read More
Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea announce new initiative to integrate content within Korean Citation Index into Web of Science - November 25, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), have announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region's scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the… Read More
State Library of Queensland opts for Ex Libris Rosetta - November 24, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has selected Ex Libris Rosetta to demonstrate management and preservation of its digital collections. Rosetta's unique end-to-end digital asset management and preservation framework will support the complete lifecycle of 'born digital'… Read More
London Higher and SPARC report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies - November 24, 2014
London Higher and SPARC Europe have commissioned a new report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies. The report 'Counting the Costs of Open Access' highlights the compliance burden associated with the move to open access… Read More
Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles - November 24, 2014
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy is expected to be initiated by January 2017. Until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals… Read More
American Psychiatric Publishing re-launches PsychiatryOnline with Atypon - November 21, 2014
Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, and American Psychiatric Publishing (APP), a division of American Psychiatric Association, have re-launched PsychiatryOnline on Atypon's Literatum platform. PsychiatryOnline features DSM-5®— the most widely used psychiatric reference in the… Read More
