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Voila: Library and Archives Canada launches new National Union Catalogue, adds unique records to WorldCat -

Library and Archives Canada has launched Voilà, Canada's new National Union Catalogue that will make the country's documentary heritage more widely accessible and available to library users in Canada and around the world through WorldCat. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) catalogue… Read More

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online -

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Robert Harington (Crossref: How Stakeholders Across the Publishing Industry Collaborate); Colleen Flaherty (‘Decolonizing’ a Journal); Emilie Reas (Open science: Sharing is caring, but is privacy theft? by David Mehler and Kevin Weiner); and Danielle Padula, Theresa Somerville and Ben Mudrak… Read More

Elsevier expands collaboration with the National University of Science and Technology MISIS to support engineering research and innovation projects -

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, is broadening its collaboration with the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS) in Russia by providing access to the full collection of high-quality Materials Science content. As of December 2017, NUST MISIS researchers… Read More

SAGE Publishing and the National Psoriasis Foundation partner to publish the Journal of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis -

Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced a partnership with the National Psoriasis Foundation to publish its specialty publication, the Journal of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (JPPA). The journal provides the latest research and practical treatment information about psoriatic disease - a chronic immune-mediated disease affecting the… Read More

ACS Publications announces new manuscript submission guidelines -

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced 'Review-Ready Submission' as part of an ongoing effort to improve the author and reviewer experience. This change to submission requirements will save researchers time by eliminating journal-specific formatting. By simplifying the way in which a… Read More

eLife enhances open annotation with Hypothesis to promote scientific discussion online -

eLife, in collaboration with Hypothesis, has introduced open annotation to enable users of its website to make comments, highlight important sections of articles and engage with the reading public online. The open-source Hypothesis software has been extensively customised for use by eLife and other publishers with… Read More


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