COAR Annual Meeting 2017 scheduled for May 8-10, 2017 - October 31, 2016
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Library System (SBA) of the Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, have announced that the next COAR Annual Meeting, scheduled for May 8-10, 2017, will take place in Venice, on the campus of the Università Ca' Foscari. The major… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing and Hangzhou Dianzi University announce strategic alliance - October 31, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing and Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU) have entered into an agreement for strategic alliance in support of Emerald's Chinese Management Studies (CMS) journal. The collaboration is an extension of an already established working relationship between the two organisations, as HDU is a… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 31, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Katie Shamash (The impact of article processing charges on libraries and what is being done to help); Alice Meadows (Mind the (Pay) Gap); Dylan Parker (Impact in Action: Understanding open access content usage as it occurs); Carl Straumsheim (Doubts about… Read More
EBSCO Health and McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit partner to expand evidence-based healthcare - October 27, 2016
EBSCO Health has announced a partnership with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to ensure that healthcare professionals can make decisions based on the best available evidence. The partnership brings together two of the most established services that provide systematic literature surveillance to improve the effectiveness… Read More
CABI’s first open access book tackles global health - October 27, 2016
Scientific publisher CABI, has published its first open access book - Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa. Written by Gemma Aellah, Tracey Chantler and P. Wenzel Geissler, this book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas… Read More
Brill appoints Marti Huetink as Publishing Director of the History program - October 27, 2016
Academic publisher Brill has announced the appointment of Marti Huetink, Publishing Director of the History program, effective November 1, 2016. As Publishing Director of the History program at Brill, Huetink will begin coordinating all business development activities of the company in the area of Digital Humanities.… Read More
