American Chemical Society announces support to Dutch Universities’ Open Access goals - May 27, 2016
The American Chemical Society's Publications Division (ACS) and VSNU, in its role representing Dutch universities and participating research institutions, have reached an agreement whereby open access publishing arrangements will be a part of the subscription licensing contract between the US-based professional society… Read More
EBSCO Information Services continues to support open source technology for libraries - May 27, 2016
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to provide support in advocating open source and open access. EBSCO has agreed to provide additional financial support to Koha, the world's first full-featured, free open source Integrated Library System (ILS) that is used worldwide by more than 15,000 libraries of… Read More
Overleaf and Oxford University Press announce new partnership - May 27, 2016
Overleaf has announced a new partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP). OUP is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Through this partnership, authors submitting to OUP's… Read More
Koç University opts for Ex Libris campusM mobile app platform - May 27, 2016
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that Istanbul-based Koç University, one of the leading academic and research institutions in Turkey, has chosen the Ex Libris campusM® Enterprise platform for developing and delivering personalised applications and services to students and staff. With campusM, the University… Read More
Holiday Notice - May 27, 2016
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on May 30, 2016 on account of Memorial day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the May 27th issue. Read More
Altmetric launch Badges for Books – new chapter-level insights for thousands of scholarly books - May 26, 2016
Launching on Routledge Handbooks Online, Altmetric Badges for Books enables publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received. Now available on content that is identified by ISBN (International Standard Book Number),… Read More
