Springer and Network of Alabama Academic Libraries sign eBook deal - September 7, 2011
STM publisher Springer and the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) have signed a license which grants the consortium perpetual access to Springer eBooks on SpringerLink. This state-wide agreement includes a customised license for Springer’s eBook Collections in Business and Economics, Biomedical and Life Sciences,… Read More
Registrations for Berlin 9 Open Access Conference now open - September 7, 2011
The ninth installment in the Berlin Open Access Conference Series, which convenes leaders in the science, humanities, research, funding, and policy communities around The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, will take place at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on… Read More
HighWire Press unveils 5-star article rating feature on new journal SAGE Open - September 7, 2011
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has unveiled a 5-star article rating feature on the newly launched peer-reviewed research journal, SAGE Open (www.sageopen.com). The feature seeks to give readers the opportunity to weigh in on the quality and impact… Read More
UConn Libraries join HathiTrust Digital Library - September 7, 2011
The UConn Libraries have become the latest member of HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating to compile a massive digital library of published scholarship. HathiTrust includes material from the Google Books Library Project, an effort by Google to scan… Read More
Allen Press and Southern Appalachian Botanical Society announce co-publishing partnership - September 7, 2011
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has been chosen by the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society (SABS) to co-publish the Society’s scientific journal, Castanea, beginning in 2012. First published in 1936, Castanea is a quarterly journal that publishes papers relating to all aspects of botany… Read More
Brill set to publish two prominent Biology journals - September 7, 2011
Dutch academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, has announced that it is set to publish two additional society journals - Journal of Crustacean Biology and the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, beginning January 2012. The journals will be available both in print and on Brill’s online platform. The Journal… Read More
