Inera and Overleaf partner to improve author writing experience - January 31, 2017
Overleaf, an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, and Inera, provider of the eXtyles and Edifix family of editorial and XML solutions, have announced a partnership to improve the author writing experience by helping authors easily structure, correct and then upload and use their… Read More
Reprints Desk appoints STM industry expert Sharon Mattern Büttiker as Director of Content Management - January 31, 2017
Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based solutions for scientific research, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk has hired Sharon Mattern Büttiker as Director of Content Management. Mattern will work on expanding Reprints Desk's publisher relations and content portfolio in support of the… Read More
Elsevier announces publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials and four additional veterinary science and zoology books - January 30, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials by John E. Cooper and Gordon Hull. It consists of two cross-referenced parts. The first, the book itself, is a review of pathological changes and tissue responses in… Read More
New OCLC Research report on digitization in public and state libraries - January 30, 2017
The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that OCLC Research has published a new report: Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries. This report summarises the results of a… Read More
Education publishers sue Amazon marketplace vendors over counterfeit sales - January 30, 2017
Education publishers Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw Hill have summoned Amazon to disclose the names and financial accounts of online vendors allegedly selling low-cost pirated copies of the publishers' books via the Amazon marketplace site. According… Read More
CARL releases Roadmap towards sustainable scholarly communication - January 30, 2017
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a Scholarly Communications Roadmap that presents clear activities it aims to undertake to stimulate positive change towards an open, sustainable, effective and innovative scholarly communication system. The key activities identified by CARL for action in the… Read More
