SPARC Europe appoints Lars Bjørnshauge as Interim Director - October 25, 2011
Lars Bjørnshauge has been appointed to the role of Interim Director for SPARC Europe. The announcement was made by Bas Savenije, Chair of the SPARC Europe Board. Bjørnshauge, formerly Director of Libraries at Lund University in Sweden and a long-standing member of the SPARC Europe Board,… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health names Jayne Marks as Vice President of Publishing - October 25, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the appointment of Jayne Marks as Vice President, Publishing, at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit. In her new role, Marks will be responsible for driving LWW’s journal strategy… Read More
JISC welcomes OAIG reports and newly released repositories resource pack - October 25, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has welcomed the UK Open Access Implementation Group’s (OAIG) reports and the recently released new repositories resource pack. The “Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research report” (PDF) and the “Open… Read More
Maney Publishing marks OA Week with open content - October 25, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from October 24 until November 4 to coincide with Open Access Week. During this period the publisher will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to… Read More
CUP to publish Episteme: A journal of individual and social epistemology - October 25, 2011
Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the UK's University of Cambridge, has announced that Episteme, the journal in social epistemology, will move to CUP in 2012 with a broader remit and an increase in frequency to four issues per year. The journal has, in… Read More
STN redesigned to offer better search and analysis capabilities - October 25, 2011
The STN partners - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the US and FIZ Karlsruhe in Germany - have announced that a completely new STN will be phased into the market beginning in 2012. STN is an online database service that provides global… Read More
