Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 9, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Gary Moorman and Peggy Semingson (Journals Need Digital Integration to Stay Relevant); Alice Meadows (Flipping, not Flopping: Converting Subscription Journals to Open Access); Anneliese Taylor (Science Publishing: Sharing articles via academic networks); Joseph Esposito (The Context of Scientific Publishing); and… Read More
NFAIS selects OCLC’s Mary Sauer-Games as new Board of Directors President - March 6, 2015
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a membership association for the information services industry, has announced the selection of Mary Sauer-Games, OCLC Vice President of Product Management, as its new Board of Directors President. Sauer-Games begins a one-year term as Board President, succeeding… Read More
Springer starts pilot project on Linked Open Data - March 6, 2015
STM publisher Springer has now opened selected metadata from conference publications, heeding the European Commission's call for promoting open data. The term Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to structured, machine-readable data, which more and more researchers and librarians are now using in their work. Springer belongs… Read More
Directory of Open Access Journals introduces new standards to help community address quality concerns - March 6, 2015
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a comprehensive international database of more than 10,000 Open Access journals, recently implemented a rigorous new vetting process that aims to raise the bar of quality for the journals it lists and filters out publications that are tarnishing the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer selects GigaSpaces XAP with SanDisk ZetaScale software to support data growth and faster processing of mission-critical data - March 6, 2015
GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of in-memory computing and cloud orchestration technologies, has announced that Wolters Kluwer will use XAP MemoryXtend to enable scaling of the growing volume of data processed by its Sentri7®clinical decision support application and to reduce its hardware footprint.… Read More
Future Science Group to continue to require double-blind peer review for research articles - March 6, 2015
Publisher Future Science Group has announced that it will continue to require double-blind peer review for research articles submitted to all 34 professional journals published by both of its imprints, Future Science and Future Medicine. FSG has employed the use of double-blind peer review since the… Read More
