Scribd to expand ebook subscription service, raises $22 million in financing - January 5, 2015
Subscription book service Scribd has closed a $22 million financing led by Khosla Ventures with reinvestment from existing backers including Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Seasoned entrepreneur Keith Rabois will join Scribd's board as a board observer. This brings Scribd's total funding… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 5, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Brian Hughes (Alternative access models in academic publishing); Dr. Sara Adaes (There’s Something Really Wrong With Science These Days); and Prof. Heather Morrison (2014 Dramatic Growth of Open Access: 30 indicators of growth beyond the ordinary). Blogspeak includes blog posts… Read More
Russia set to launch National Digital Library in 2015 - December 31, 2014
Russia recently unveiled new plans to launch a National Digital Library in 2015. According to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, the new initiative will transform local libraries into modern information and cultural hubs. Citizens' access to the service will be via the internet with a single electronic library ticket.… Read More
Holiday Notice - December 31, 2014
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 1st and January 2nd. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, January 5, 2015. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the December 31st issue. We take this opportunity… Read More
arXiv analysis finds that ‘text overlap’ clutters scientific papers - December 31, 2014
Computer text analysis of a huge database of scientific papers shows a large amount of 'text overlap,' where authors use text from previous papers of their own and others, not always with attribution. According to Cornell University Library researchers, this is not necessarily good or bad.… Read More
Dora Angelaki named new editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neuroscience - December 31, 2014
The Society of Neuroscience has announced the appointment of Dora Angelaki as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neuroscience, effective January 1. She will succeed John Maunsell, who served as editor-in-chief of the journal for seven years. Angelaki, the Wilhelmina Robertson professor and chair of the… Read More
