Elsevier and ACCSES collaborate to provide DirectCourse Curricula to disability service providers - November 16, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier will offer Elsevier's DirectCourse eLearning curricula to the more than 1,200 organizations in the ACCSES network that provide exceptional services to people with disabilities across the United States. ACCSES is an elite network of more than 1,200 disability service providers promoting and… Read More
Springer launches three new book series in cognitive psychology - November 16, 2016
Global research, educational and professional publisher, Springer, part of Springer Nature, will add three new book series to its cognitive psychology portfolio: Computational Approaches to Cognition and Perception, SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology, and SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science. The books in these… Read More
Emerald looks to widen scope of its Library & Information Science journals to address new trends, appoints a number of new editors - November 15, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced changes to some of its key Library & Information Science journals. The publisher has changed the names, broadened the scope and appointed new editors to some of these journals. According to Eileen Breen, Publisher at Emerald, Library Science is… Read More
Wellcome Open Research launches with first articles - November 15, 2016
Wellcome's publishing platform, Wellcome Open Research, has launched with its first articles published and freely available to view. These articles will shortly undergo open peer review. They span a range of formats - from more traditional research articles to data notes, software tools and study protocols,… Read More
Ithaka S+R and PALCI join NFAIS as new members - November 15, 2016
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global non-profit membership organization serving the information services community, has announced that Ithaka S+R and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) have joined NFAIS as new members. Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit service that helps… Read More
USDA and CHORUS sign MoU to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research - November 15, 2016
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and CHORUS have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research. USDA already links from the PubAg portal to CHORUS-verified, publicly accessible content on… Read More
