American Chemical Society to use New RightsLink for Open Access platform to manage article processing charges for its publications - August 21, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Chemical Society (ACS) is the first publisher to implement its next generation RightsLink® for Open Access platform to manage article processing charges (APCs) for ACS Open… Read More
Direct Textbook revamps app to slash textbook costs by up to 90 percent - August 21, 2014
Direct Textbook has announced the release of its revamped mobile app, which lets college students instantly compare textbook prices from hundreds of online stores. The new version of the Direct Textbook app introduces a barcode scanner that makes it easier than ever for students to find… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces its participation in NLM’s Emergency Access Initiative - August 20, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced its participation in the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) by providing 55 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) medical, nursing and allied health specialty journals during a… Read More
ProQuest Flow releases add-on to interoperate with Google Docs - August 20, 2014
ProQuest Flow™, a cloud-based research management solution, has released an add-on to interoperate with Google Docs. The new add-on expands the collaborative writing capabilities of Google Docs by integrating the document management tools of Flow during the authoring phase of research. As a result, researchers can… Read More
CHORUS-Portico deal to support preservation requirements of U.S. Federal OSTP Policy - August 19, 2014
The not-for-profit digital archive Portico and CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) have entered into an agreement to support the preservation requirements of the policy memorandum released in February 2013 by the White House's Office of Science and… Read More
University of Virginia opts for EBSCO Discovery Service API for better search retrieval and customer support - August 19, 2014
University of Virginia, one of the top research academic institutions in the US, has migrated to the EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) API for better search retrieval as well as customer support. By implementing the EDS API with the libraries' Blacklight-driven interface, University of Virginia is able… Read More
