Jisc proposes refinements to funding model - September 13, 2013
Jisc is writing to UK universities to outline proposed refinements to the organisation's funding model. Since the publication of Sir Alan Wilson's review of Jisc in February 2011 it has enhanced its integration with the sector to deliver products and services developed around its needs.… Read More
Registration deadline approaching for ARL Fall Forum on Mobilizing the Research Enterprise - September 13, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that September 20, is the last day to register for the ARL Fall Forum 2013, 'Mobilizing the Research Enterprise,' to be held in Arlington, Virginia, October 10–11. The program will explore the opportunities and collaborations in responding to… Read More
ISPG selects USACO Corporation as exclusive sales agent in Japan for consortia and library sales - September 13, 2013
The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) has chosen USACO Corporation as its exclusive sales agent in Japan for consortia and library sales. USACO Corporation has already been able to attain the endorsement for the ISPG Collection from the Japanese Medical Library Association and the Japanese Pharmaceutical… Read More
Elsevier partners with the Energy Institute to organise first Energy Systems conference - September 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has announced its official collaboration with the Energy Institute (EI) in organising the first Energy Systems conference to be held from June 24-25, 2014 in London. Policy makers, researchers and energy industry figures today face an enormous challenge to develop a safer, more… Read More
Patients and Carers gain access to over 300 Wiley journals - September 12, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it will join patientACCESS, a new program which offers low-cost access to medical and scientific research articles to patients and caregivers. From September 2013, 310 Wiley journals will join the international collaboration between publishers, the Association… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry integrates new online metrics monitoring into its scientific journals - September 12, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has integrated a new system for monitoring article-level metrics into a selection of its scientific journals. The metrics are provided by London-based start-up Altmetric. The new service extracts online mentions of scholarly articles from social media, newspapers, blogs and other… Read More
