Holiday Notice - January 17, 2020
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 20, 2020 on account of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January… Read More
SSP 42nd Annual Meeting – Tracks and Highlights announced - January 16, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its 42nd Annual Meeting, “Rethink, Reimagine, & Revolutionize the Future of Scholarly Communication,” is scheduled to be held from May 27-29, 2020, in Boston, MA. Registration opens in early February. Inspired by… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Spanish National Research Council announce transformative Open Access agreement - January 16, 2020
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC). The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal is the first such agreement between a university press and Spanish research institutions, and the first… Read More
SPIE and BIBSAM announce three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - January 16, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden. The three-year agreement, the first ‘Read and Publish’ agreement that SPIE has signed, began January 1, 2020. It incorporates read access to… Read More
Taylor & Francis Online supports clinical trial data linking - January 16, 2020
Taylor & Francis Online now links clinical trial data to published articles and automatically deposits this data to Crossref and PubMed, when authors supply the clinical trial numbers within a manuscript. Currently, Taylor & Francis publishes over 250 journals in the Medicine and Health subject… Read More
ARL and the Coalition for Networked Information release report on the 2019 ARL-CNI Fall Forum, Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux - January 16, 2020
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) have released a report on the 2019 ARL-CNI Fall Forum, Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux. As universities and other learning environments evolve to… Read More