American University of Sharjah selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services - June 1, 2015
The American University of Sharjah, based in the United Arab Emirates, has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library management solution. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) provide cloud-based library management and discovery applications in an integrated suite. WMS offers librarians a cost-effective way to… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 1, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Can We Stop Talking about the "System" of Scholarly Communications, Please?); Virgina Barbour (Elsevier's new sharing policy is really a reversal of the rights of authors); Jigasha Patel (Publish or perish: is there an alternative?); Scholarly Kitchen Blog… Read More
SAGE acquires Pion Limited, strengthens geography and psychology portfolio - May 29, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of Pion Limited, independent publisher of high quality academic journals founded by Adam Gelbtuch and John Ashby in 1959. The sale was announced jointly by Chairman of Pion, David Cohen and Stephen Barr, President SAGE International. The acquisition (brokered… Read More
Taylor & Francis adds Altmetric data to Taylor & Francis Online and Cogent OA - May 29, 2015
Taylor & Francis Group has announced the addition of Altmetric data to Taylor & Francis Online and Cogent OA, enhancing the article metrics currently available on both journal platforms. Altmetric data, which will be added to all journal articles published since January 2012, will offer… Read More
National Library of the Netherlands and Portico partnership at the forefront of digital preservation and international collaboration - May 29, 2015
The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Portico have announced a new partnership that will support the preservation of e-journals through the KB’s International e-Depot program and take advantage of Portico’s extensive preservation infrastructure and expertise. The KB’s International e-Depot program focuses on the… Read More
PeerJ Computer Science publishes first peer-reviewed articles - May 29, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the publication of its first peer-reviewed articles in PeerJ Computer Science, a new cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. PeerJ Computer Science first started accepting preprints and submissions for peer-reviewed articles in February this… Read More
