RIN and Repositories Support Project event to look at how mandates work in practice - May 4, 2009
The Research Information Network (RIN) and the Repositories Support Project (RSP) are holding a free event to look at how researchers are responding to mandates to include the results of their research work in repositories. The event, scheduled for May 29 at the Royal Institute of… Read More
Medknow and Globethics.net partner to develop ethics journals - May 4, 2009
Open access publisher Medknow Publications, India, has signed an agreement with Globethics.net, a global network of institutions and persons interested in different fields of applied ethics. Under the deal, both companies will cooperate in the acquisition, production, subscription, distribution, availability and marketing of online and print… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 4, 2009
The seventh edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Roy Tennant (Library of Congress Releases Official Linked Data Site); Philip Davis (Paying for Open Access Publication Charges); Stevan Harnad (Conflicts of Interest in Open Access); and Steve Helyin (The World's Foremost Consultant on the Future of Publishing). A service… Read More
Poor practices by online sites leads to loss of revenue and rights, says study - May 1, 2009
iCopyright, a US-based provider of intelligent copyright systems for digital content, has published a study according to which online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'Article Tools' on their web pages. Article… Read More
Ovid expands medical eBook offerings - May 1, 2009
Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that 60 ebooks from Clinical Publishing, an independent medical publisher based in the UK, are scheduled to be available on OvidSP in 2009. Many of the titles are already for sale and accessible via Books@Ovid, OvidSP's ebook… Read More
Global economic downturn necessitates cutbacks at ACS - May 1, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, recently announced cost-saving measures in light of investment losses, declining ad revenues, and falling institutional print subscriptions to its journals and other publications. In addition to job cuts, the society has capped certain retirement health benefits… Read More
