Arab Open University students in all major courses gain access to McGraw-Hill Connect course materials - November 19, 2018
A new agreement that expands the collaboration among Arab Open University (AOU), McGraw-Hill Education and Growmore will make McGraw-Hill's high quality digital content available to students at AOU's nine branches in the Middle East and Africa. Students in all major first- and second-year course areas will… Read More
Scholastica users can now deposit articles automatically into Portico - November 19, 2018
Journals using Scholastica Open Access Publishing can now have their articles automatically deposited into the Portico digital preservation service. One of the most important steps that online journals should take to ensure that readers will always have access to their scholarship, even if the journal… Read More
Cengage and University of Missouri System partner to offer Cengage Unlimited subscriptions to all students - November 19, 2018
Cengage, an education and technology company, has announced that the University of Missouri System will be offering Cengage Unlimited subscriptions to all students enrolled in Cengage courses beginning in January 2019. Cengage provides course materials to 11 million of the 20 million students pursuing higher education.… Read More
ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data – Draft white paper open for comments through November 30 - November 19, 2018
In June 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) charged a task force to look at Wikidata. The task force emerged from several years of discussion between ARL and the Wikimedia Foundation on where the two communities can effectively collaborate. The focus on Wikidata and Wikibase… Read More
OCLC and Atlas Systems to develop ILLiad for library community - November 19, 2018
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC and Atlas Systems have a long-standing partnership, and both companies are focused on putting library needs first. As a result, in addition to continuing the rapid development of Tipasa, the industry's first cloud-based ILL management system, OCLC and Atlas Systems have… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 19, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Pierre Montagano (Transforming the Research Paper into a Functional Tool); Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, and Gert G. Wagner (The overall incidence of published replication studies in economics is minuscule – greater incentives are required); Alexander C. Kafka (Will… Read More
