Oxford University Press to publish GigaScience - October 31, 2016
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its partnership with BGI. Beginning January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP) will publish the open-access, open-data journal, GigaScience. The journal has an international and multidisciplinary editorial board led by Dr. Laurie Goodman as Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Scott Edmunds… Read More
SPARC launches integrated resource to understand, compare federal article and data-sharing policies - October 31, 2016
SPARC has released a new, integrated resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding U.S. federal agencies' article and data sharing policies. This free tool combines a new analysis of federal public access plans for sharing peer-reviewed research articles with the federal data sharing policy resource that SPARC… Read More
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
