De Gruyter consolidates all OA publications under a new imprint: De Gruyter Open - January 24, 2014
Academic publishing house De Gruyter is consolidating all OA publications under a new imprint: De Gruyter Open. The publisher Versita, which was acquired by De Gruyter in 2012, will be fully subsumed under the new imprint. Open Access (OA) is an important and growing aspect… Read More
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to preserve with CLOCKSS Archive - January 24, 2014
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to preserve the preprint server for the life sciences BioRχiv and the ejournals of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries… Read More
PMPH-USA announces publication of Hepatobiliary Cancer - January 24, 2014
Medical publishing house PMPH-USA has announced the publication of Hepatobiliary Cancer edited by Yuman Fong of Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Jia-hong Dong of the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China, both internationally recognized for their research and expertise in liver and biliary surgery. Section… Read More
Over 400,000 EBL e-book titles now available via Ingram’s OASIS content platform for academic libraries worldwide - January 24, 2014
Ingram Content Group Inc., and ProQuest's EBL - Ebook Library, an e-book aggregator serving academic, corporate and research libraries worldwide, have announced that more than 400,000 EBL e-book titles are available through Ingram's OASIS® content platform for academic libraries worldwide. Libraries… Read More
Springer begins 2014 with two major accomplishments - January 23, 2014
Springer started 2014 by announcing two major accomplishments. The publisher completed its Springer Book Archives (SBA), a four-year project to digitise nearly every book it had published from the 1840s to 2004. While the company originally anticipated that around 100,000 books would be part of this… Read More
OCLC unveils WorldCat Discovery Services - January 23, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced the launch of WorldCat Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications that brings together the FirstSearch and WorldCat Local services. Set to launch in March, the new suite will enable discovery of more than… Read More
