Atypon signs multi-year renewals with twelve of its publisher clients - February 21, 2019
Atypon has recently signed multi-year renewals with twelve of its publisher clients. The publisher clients include: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; American Roentgen Ray Society; Annual Reviews; British Institute of Radiology; Canadian Science Publishing; Institution of Civil Engineers; Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy;… Read More
Feedback on the implementation guidance of Plan S generates large public response - February 20, 2019
Over 600 individuals and organisations provided feedback to cOAlition S on the implementation guidance of Plan S. Originating from over 40 countries, respondents providing feedback include researchers, librarians and libraries, publishers and editors, universities, learned societies, research funders and performers, and other interested citizens and organisations.… Read More
Threats to copyright protections seen as ‘Existential’, reports Simba Information - February 20, 2019
Copyright protection and the many ways it is perceived to be under threat were a recurring theme to proceedings at the Association of American Publishers annual Professional and Scholarly Publishing conference on February 7, reports market research firm Simba Information. Simba Information covers issues of copyright… Read More
Consortium of Chinese partners select IOP Publishing to publish their new journal – the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing - February 20, 2019
IOP Publishing has been chosen by a consortium of Chinese partners to publish their new journal, the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IJEM). The new, open access journal will cover the science and technology of manufacturing functional devices and systems with extreme dimensions (extremely large… Read More
TIB promotes OA transition in the field of electrochemistry - February 20, 2019
Since 2018, all the members of the German consortium of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) led by the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - German National Library of Science and Technology have benefited from a special publishing option: ECS grants all institutions participating in its… Read More
NLM and Wellcome complete partnership to provide free access to historically-significant biomedical journals - February 20, 2019
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome have completed their partnership to make thousands of full back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available through the National Institutes of Health life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC), and through its European counterpart,… Read More
