The Regional Automation Consortium selects Boopsie to develop customised mobile app for member libraries - April 27, 2015
Boopsie Inc., a mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide, has announced that it has been selected by The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC), the largest library consortium in Alberta, to develop a customised mobile app for its more than 170 member libraries. Library patrons throughout Alberta will… Read More
LM Information Delivery acquires Broekhuis Business Services BV’s subscription management division - April 27, 2015
International subscription and information management service provider LM Information Delivery has announced the acquisition of the subscription management services division of Dutch company Broekhuis Business Services BV. As of April 1, 2015, all of Broekhuis Business Services BV's subscription management services have been transferred to… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 27, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Robert Harington (Ethnography: A Scientist Discovers the Value of the Social Sciences); Stevan Harnad (How to Get Open Access Mandates on the Fast Track); Elizabeth Moylan (Are metrics meaningful?); Maarten van Wesel (Scholarly behaviour and evaluation criteria: Uncovering the superficial… Read More
Elsevier launches multidisciplinary open access journal - April 24, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal One Health. The journal is the official journal of the One Health Platform, an international forum that promotes a cross-sectoral and collaborative approach to one health issues, bringing together leading experts from a… Read More
Introducing Nature Reviews Disease Primers with NPG portfolio - April 24, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has launched Nature Reviews Disease Primers (NRDP), an online-only, peer-reviewed journal that introduces a new format to the NPG portfolio. NRDP will publish review articles called Primers that provide overviews of diseases and disorders. Alongside each of the articles is an… Read More
China Computer Federation and Springer to publish new journal - April 24, 2015
STM publisher Springer will publish the new open access journal Data Science and Engineering (DSE) in collaboration with the China Computer Federation (CCF), starting in 2015. CCF is responsible for editorial content, the editorial board and academic development of the journal. Data Science and Engineering is… Read More