Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 2, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kenneth Li (Amazon writes new chapter in its strategy); Kent Anderson (“The Reinvention of Journalism” — Just Code for “Reinvention of the Status Quo”?); Kevin Smokler (Book Publicity and Marketing: How Soon was Yesterday?); Stevan Harnad (The Mandate of Open… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - August 2, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
AAP expresses concern on government mandates requiring free access to journal articles - July 30, 2010
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has warned that government mandates requiring free access to journal articles published by the private sector would seriously undermine scientific communication, as well as US jobs, exports and copyright protection. In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government… Read More
Elsevier and PANGAEA announce next step in connecting research articles to data - July 30, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - have announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are… Read More
Free access to APS online journals in US public libraries - July 30, 2010
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced a new public access initiative that will give readers and researchers in public libraries in the US full use of all online APS journals, from the most recent articles back to the first issue in 1893. The collection includes… Read More
SkyRiver Technology files antitrust suit against OCLC - July 30, 2010
Cataloging services provider SkyRiver Technology Solutions, US, has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US. The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries… Read More
