Wellcome Library signs up for new OA pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched - December 9, 2013
The Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. … Read More
UMass Amherst Libraries join HathiTrust partnership - December 9, 2013
The UMass Amherst Libraries has become one of the newest partners of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. As… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 9, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Tip of the Iceberg - How the Illusion of Products Can Mislead Customers About the Realities of Business); Stevan Harnad (“Nudging” researchers toward Gold Open Access will delay the shift to wider access of research); Joseph Esposito (How… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Masaryk University collaborate to quantify global research impact - December 6, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a commitment between Masaryk University and Thomson Reuters to demonstrate the efficiency and global impact of the university’s scientific research. The trusted indicators of Thomson Reuters InCites, the company’s flagship, web-based research evaluation tool, will… Read More
Health Market Science selects Medi-Span Controlled Substance Files for integration with Prescriber Eligibility solution - December 6, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that its Medi-Span Controlled Substances Drug File has been selected by Health Market Science (HMS), a supplier of provider data and end-to-end solutions that address data management, regulatory compliance and market intelligence, for integration with HMS's Prescriber Eligibility®… Read More
SCOAP3 to begin January 1, 2014 - December 6, 2013
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start January 1, 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will… Read More
