Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 8, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Does Open Access Tackle, Perpetuate, or Exacerbate the Matthew Effect?); Eve Hardy (Scientific Misconduct, Not Error, Accounts For The Majority Of Article Retractions); Li-Shih Huang (There’s a disconnect between “scholarly value” and how we reach audiences who need… Read More
Association of American Publishers and Google announce settlement agreement - October 5, 2012
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Internet search services provider Google have announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitised by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.… Read More
EBSCO, Elsevier agreement allows mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service - October 5, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced an agreement to allow mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Scopus is a bibliographic, abstract and citation database provided by Elsevier. The agreement… Read More
NFAIS to host webinar on usage of linked data - October 5, 2012
The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90 minute webinar on October 25, 2012 to provide an overview of how linked data can be used to the benefit of the entire information community - content providers, librarians, and users. Bradley Allen,… Read More
ProQuest releases new collection in Periodicals Archive Online, makes essential journals easy to access - October 5, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has released the 10th collection in its widely-used Periodicals Archive Online, continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers. A landmark electronic trove of more than 700 digitised, fully searchable journal archives, Periodicals Archive… Read More
WK Health and Joanna Briggs Institute expand partnership to provide full suite of JBI resources on OvidSP - October 5, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide's Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). JBI is an international producer of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources and tools. Ovid, part of WK Health, will be the exclusive channel… Read More
