Wiley joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - August 31, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced its new membership of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines and enables exchange of information, setting standards, advancing models,… Read More
Access to state-specific and Canadian educational requirements via EBSCO Publishing’s K-8 electronic databases - August 31, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, continues its commitment as a partner for schools and school libraries by announcing the enhancement of the Curriculum Standards feature available through many of its popular K-8 interfaces and databases. EBSCO’s Curriculum Standards module, powered by Academic Benchmarks,… Read More
E-readers may survive media tablet onslaught as niche play, says ABI Research report - August 31, 2012
ABI Research's Media Tablets Research Service has released a report titled 'eReaders and the Digital Publishing Market'. The growing popularity of media tablets along with declining US baby boomer population and lack of organised digital bookstores outside of the US and Western Europe will reduce the… Read More
SAGE and United European Gastroenterology to launch United European Gastroenterology Journal - August 31, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) have announced an agreement to launch United European Gastroenterology Journal (UEG Journal) in February 2013. UEG Journal will be UEG's official platform for scientific publication. Published bi-monthly, and edited by Editor-in-Chief Professor Jan Tack, the journal will… Read More
Registrations now open for ARL forum on workforce for 21st-century libraries - August 31, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that it will host a forum, 'Library Workforce for 21st-Century Research Libraries,' on October 11–12, 2012, in Washington, DC, immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting. The forum is open to all and is geared for research library directors,… Read More
Western Regional Storage Trust completes first round of print journal archiving - August 31, 2012
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in western US, has announced that it has completed its first round of print journal archiving. This has been accomplished under a three-year programme jointly funded by WEST members and… Read More
