CAS announces early access of SciFindern to select organisations - December 27, 2016
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, unveiled SciFindern early access to key customers in November. A powerful new workflow solution with humanly-curated content at its foundation, SciFindern delivers immediately actionable results at every step of the research process. SciFindern claims to be the first… Read More
Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan set to lose access to Elsevier journals - December 27, 2016
Thousands of scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan are set to lose online access to journals from the Dutch publisher Elsevier. Contract negotiations in both Germany and Taiwan broke down in December, while Peru's government has cut off funding for a licence. Universities regularly complain… Read More
Drafts charters of W3C Publishing Business Group, EPUB 3 Community Group available - December 27, 2016
As part of work towards implementing the plan to combine IDPF with W3C, proposed initial charters have been drafted for the anticipated new W3C Publishing Business Group and W3C EPUB 3 Community Group. These drafts were prepared in collaboration with co-chairs of the IDPF EPUB… Read More
The Society for Scholarly Publishing organises regional event covering open access in education - December 27, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held its first Philadelphia-based regional programming event, 'Open Access in Education: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the Open Syllabus Project in the Context of Scholarly Publishing', on December 7, 2016, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The format… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry and the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany sign new ‘Read & Publish’ agreement - December 22, 2016
The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed a new 'Read & Publish' agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany, under which corresponding authors from the Max Planck Institutes will be able to publish open access in all hybrid Royal Society… Read More
SAGE ceases publication and sale of Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, 6th edition - December 22, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has immediately ceased the publication and sale of Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, 6th edition, by Dr. Geraldine Hynes as one of the examples listed does not measure up to its high standards of scholarly knowledge and academic discourse. While the… Read More
