The British University in Egypt and McGraw-Hill partner to support digital transition - August 5, 2019
Building on its reputation as a leader in the use of digital technology for instruction, The British University in Egypt (BUE) is expanding its work with McGraw-Hill to deploy digital courseware to more than 20,000 students in 2019. Since 2017, BUE and McGraw-Hill have worked together… Read More
American Association for Cancer Research set to launch new journal – Blood Cancer Discovery - August 5, 2019
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is launching a new journal, Blood Cancer Discovery. The journal will be the ninth in the AACR’s prestigious portfolio of scientific publications, including the highly cited journal, Cancer Discovery. Blood Cancer Discovery will feature high-impact, peer-reviewed articles describing… Read More
OA Monographs in Europe’s research libraries: best-practices, opportunities & challenges - August 5, 2019
Over 80% of surveyed LIBER libraries say they distribute Open Access (OA) books via a repository and include them in discovery services or catalogues. A further 40% publish OA books, or plan to do so, and a quarter provides library funding to pay author fees related… Read More
Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network: CDL releases planning initiative update, and new report - August 5, 2019
The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced the availability of a new report, ‘Finding Aid Aggregation at a Crossroads’ (‘Crossroads’). This report is a primary deliverable of the ‘Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network’ project, a one-year (October 2018 –… Read More
ARL-CNI Fall Forum to explore research libraries as catalytic leaders in a society in constant flux - August 5, 2019
Registration is now open for the 2019 Fall Forum, to be hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) on September 26 in Washington, DC. The theme of this year’s ARL-CNI Fall Forum is ‘Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders… Read More
DeepGreen partners with publishers and universities to distribute open access content to institutional repositories - August 5, 2019
DeepGreen initiative in Germany has started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S.Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz. DeepGreen aims… Read More
