OCLC names Bart Murphy as Chief Technology and Information Officer - December 19, 2018
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC has named Bart Murphy as its Chief Technology and Information Officer. Murphy's technology experience spans a diverse set of organisations and industries. He most recently was the Chief Technology Officer of PriorAuthNow, a technology organisation that enables streamlining of healthcare access… Read More
Yolo County Library uses Gale’s Analytics On Demand to improve program outcomes and services - December 19, 2018
Yolo County Library is using Analytics On Demand from Gale, a Cengage company, to better understand the households in its communities and design customised library services and resources to fit their needs. Now, Yolo County librarians can make data-driven decisions to identify new outreach strategies that… Read More
Publishers Association launches new template for agreements between academic publishers and universities - December 19, 2018
The Publishers Association has launched a template for agreements between academic publishers and universities for the deposit of metadata relating to journal articles following input from members of the PA's Academic, Professional and Learning Publishers Council. The template is designed to provide those negotiating such agreements… Read More
Astronomy & Astrophysics and Max Planck Society sign transformative Open Access agreement - December 19, 2018
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), the international Journal that publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics and one of the leading journals in its field, has signed a two-year transformative Open Access agreement with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Under this agreement, funds previously… Read More
BMC launches formal portable peer review policy on BMC Biology - December 18, 2018
BMC, the first publisher to openly post named peer reviewer reports alongside articles, has announced the launch of a formal portable peer review policy on BMC Biology. The policy aims to speed up the peer review process and decrease waste in publishing. 'Portable peer review' is… Read More
IOP Publishing and the Korean Society for Composite Materials partner to launch a new journal – Functional Composites and Structures - December 18, 2018
IOP Publishing and the Korean Society for Composite Materials (KSCM) have announced a partnership to launch a new journal - Functional Composites and Structures (FCS). Co-owned by KSCM and IOP Publishing, FCS will deal with materials with mechanical integrity, whose functional properties can be achieved,… Read More
