Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 5, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Veronique Kiermer (Towards minimal reporting standards for life scientists); Angela Cochran (Are Mirror Journals a Better Path to the Open Access Flip?); Lucy Barnes (ScholarLed collaboration: a powerful engine to grow open access publishing); and Liz Allen (Introducing a new,… Read More
Holiday Notice - November 5, 2018
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 6, 2018 on account of a local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, November 7, 2018. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the November 5th issue.… Read More
Meet content and technology pioneers at ConTech 2018 - November 2, 2018
ConTech 2018 features pioneering organisations who have embraced new intelligent technologies to change the creation, management and use of scholarly and professional information content. Third Iron, LLC, a leading information technology company developing innovative services that benefit libraries and their users, and InfoDesk, which provides connectors… Read More
NISO releases draft KBART Automation Recommended Practice for public comment - November 2, 2018
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Recommended Practice, KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings. KBART Automation is an enhancement to KBART, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools, the NISO initiative which provides a format for content providers to use… Read More
Edanz Group and ORCID integrate authoring platforms to streamline manuscript preparation process - November 2, 2018
Edanz Group has announced a new collaboration with ORCID which will make it possible for authors to connect their ORCID iD to the company's Author Path, Author Academy, and Author Services websites. Now, users of the Chinese- and English-language versions of… Read More
Several UC-licensed Gale databases now live on Artemis platform - November 2, 2018
Several of the UC-licensed Gale databases are now live on the Artemis platform and are still available on the existing Gale platform as well. At present, the PIDs still point to the existing Gale platform. The PIDs will be updated when the switch to the new… Read More
