Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 25, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Stevan Harnad (Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?); Angela Cochran (The Mystery of a “Partial” Impact Factor); Joe Wikert (A business model I’m sorry we’ll never see); Rick Anderson (Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries… Read More
EBSCO announces expansion of eBook Collection with the release of 12 new Subject Sets - August 22, 2014
EBSCO Information Services has announced the release of 12 new EBSCO eBooks Subject Sets, which increases the total number of subject sets to more than 200. The subject sets are offered to libraries in convenient collections grouped by subject matter. Subject Sets are pre-packaged sets of… Read More
New edition of CAB Thesaurus published - August 22, 2014
The 2014 edition of the CAB Thesaurus, which covers agriculture, life sciences, human health, and related subjects, was published on July 21, 2014. The web site at http://www.cabi.org/cabthesaurus/ has been updated and the new thesaurus has been integrated in all of CABI's… Read More
OUP and American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery partner to publish Aesthetic Surgery Journal - August 22, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its new partnership with the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). Beginning in 2015, OUP and ASAPS will work together to publish Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ). ASJ is an official publication of ASAPS and the official… Read More
Registration now open for ARL Fall Forum on Scholarly Monograph - August 22, 2014
Registration is now open for the ARL Fall Forum 2014, 'Wanted Dead or Alive—The Scholarly Monograph,' to be held in Washington, DC, on October 9. The program will explore the future of the scholarly monograph. The forum will feature a keynote address by Laura Mandell,… Read More
Helicon Books announces new EPUB online preview products for digital publishers and ebook store owners - August 22, 2014
Ebook production house Helicon Books has announced that its two new products - EPUB Preview and Createpreview - allow digital book store owners and publishers to display a preview of an EPUB file in an online viewer window or create a shorter version of the book… Read More
