EBSCO Information Services awards five scholarships for librarians to attend the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting - January 15, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has awarded five librarians, who are all first-time attendees, $1,500 scholarships to attend the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting, scheduled to be held from January 24th-28th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The scholarships are co-sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). The scholarship recipients will… Read More
OCLC’s new EZproxy Analytics service offers libraries greater insights into use of e-resources - January 15, 2020
OCLC is introducing EZproxy Analytics, a turnkey analytics service that enables libraries using EZproxy hosted access and authentication services to transform data into actionable insights, drive more informed decisions, and demonstrate significant impact. EZproxy Analytics automatically manages the entire analytics process—from data storage, extraction, and… Read More
Accucoms appoints Simon Boisseau as Managing Director - January 15, 2020
Accucoms, the specialist in global sales and marketing for publishers and societies, has announced that Simon Boisseau will take over as Managing Director from its founder, from the beginning of 2020. Simon has been at Accucoms since 2012, during which time he has been Commercial… Read More
New report by Information Power to improve the transparency of Open Access prices and services - January 14, 2020
An independent report published by Information Power aims to improve the transparency of Open Access (OA) prices and services. The report is the outcome of a project funded by Wellcome and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on behalf of cOAlition S to… Read More
Karger Publishers flips five journals to OA and concludes transformative agreements in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Switzerland - January 14, 2020
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers continues to work actively toward a transition to Open Access (OA), including plans to ‘flip’, or convert, more journals from the subscription model to OA. By January 2020, five Karger journals have already become OA: Lifestyle Genomics, Gastrointestinal Tumors, Liver… Read More
AMIA urges NIH to dramatically revise draft data management and sharing policy to maximise value of scientific data - January 14, 2020
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recently warned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that its proposed data management and sharing policy would be detrimental to data-driven discovery and lead to increased compliance burdens for researchers. The organisation provided dozens of recommendations… Read More
